ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,723, issued on June 16, was assigned to Welch Allyn Inc. (Skaneateles Falls, N.Y.).

"Image capture for optical viewing devices" was invented by David G Perkins (Tully, N.Y.), Danielle R. Endres (Liverpool, N.Y.), Lei Guo (Manlius, N.Y.), Joshua Hess (Moravia, N.Y.) and David Villarreal (Fayetteville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device for capturing images viewed from an optical viewing device. The imaging device includes a housing having a bracket for attaching the imaging device to the optical viewing device. The imaging device captures a sequence of images viewed from the optical viewing device, determines an ima...