ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,086, issued on April 14, was assigned to Swarovski-Optik AG & Co KG (Absam, Austria).
"Telescope with at least one viewing channel" was invented by Bernhard Angerer (Mils, Austria), Georg Blatnig (Innsbruck, Austria), Matthias Daxner (Hall in Tirol, Austria), Mario Dohr (Axams, Austria), Klaus Gravogl (Vomp, Austria), Stefan Jorer (Axams, Austria), Thomas Salzburger (Stans, Austria), Marco Seeber (Gotzens, Austria), Eva-Maria Sonnweber (Axams, Austria) and Sebastian Wachsmuth (Thaur, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A telescope having at least one viewing channel comprises at least one camera."
The patent was filed on Sept. 1...