ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,086, issued on March 25, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Adjustable image capture device" was invented by Kevin M. Ryan (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), Sagar S Deyagond (Vijayapura, India), Ashley Rachel Rothenberg (Morris Plains, N.J.) and Jessica Su (Bayside, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A adjustable image capture device that includes a housing, a linkage assembly having a bore and including a plurality of linkages, and where each linkage has a bore, and the bores of the plurality of linkages define the bore of the linkage assembly, and an image capture device, wherein the image capture device ...