US Patent Issued to United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on March 3 for "Boresight video system" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,367, issued on March 3, was assigned to United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy.

"Boresight video system" was invented by T. Glenn Moore (Fredericksburg, Va.), Rodwin E. Spruel (Bristow, Va.) and Robert P. Gomez (Colonial Beach, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for collimating a mounted camera to a weapon's line of fire. The apparatus includes a base, a camera at a first end of the base, and a collet adapter at a second end of the base, and during a collimation process, the collet is fixed to a collet or fixture that is mechanically centered and aligned to the weapon's line of fire."

The ...