ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,561, issued on May 6.
"Compact, hand-held, portable, stable monocular" was invented by Brian Reynolds (Torrance, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compact, hand-held monocular device having excellent stability in view of its construction which allows the device to be held against the side of the head of the user. The device is of unitary construction, without assembly of multiple parts necessary, and can be manipulated between an active, in-use configuration which allows one-handed operation, and a storage configuration wherein the device folds flat, allows protection of the optics and storage in a small space such as a pocket ...