ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,671, issued on July 21, was assigned to Trijicon Inc. (Wixom, Mich.).
"Real-time stadiametric ranging" was invented by Brian R. Martinicky (Plymouth, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for displaying real time stadiametric range finding via an optic device includes receiving digital image data captured by one or more image capture devices, detecting at least one object in the digital image data, transforming the at least one detected object into graphical markup data and identification data, correlating the identification data with stored physical properties of one or more object types, calculating a distance to the at lea...