US Patent Issued to THALES on June 30 for "Adjustable-magnification viewing system" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,695, issued on June 30, was assigned to THALES (Courbevoie, France).

"Adjustable-magnification viewing system" was invented by Damien Bigou (Saint Heand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scope observing a scene includes a first optical sub-assembly, being an afocal module, and a second optical sub-assembly, being a display module. The afocal module includes: a removable and switchable linear polarizer, a first polarization-splitting element, and an afocal optical system arranged to collect light reflected by the first polarization-splitting element. The display module includes: a half-wave plate, being a distribution plate, a ...