ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,611, issued on March 24, was assigned to Shenzhen Yixin Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Collapsible supplemental illumination device for sighting device and control method thereof" was invented by Wei Yu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collapsible supplemental illumination device for a sighting device, including an illumination unit, a damping motion unit, a locking mechanism, and a position detection device. The damping motion unit is fixedly mounted on a main body of the sighting device. The damping motion unit is connected to the locking mechanism. The position detection device is provided on...