ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,569, issued on Aug. 5.
"Lens alignment system and method" was invented by James Alan Monroe (Syracuse, N.Y.), David Scott Content (Spring, Texas), Jeremy Sean McAllister (Saint Louis, Mo.) and Jay Russell Zgarba (Sugar Land, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens alignment system and method is disclosed. The disclosed system/method integrates one or more lens retaining members/tubes (LRM/LRT) and focal length spacers (FLS) each comprising a metallic material product (MMP) specifically manufactured to have a thermal expansion coefficient (TEC) in a predetermined range via selection of the individual MMP materials and an associated...