ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,040, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CARL ZEISS VISION INTERNATIONAL GMBI (Aalen, Germany).

"Wearable activity parameter collecting device and mounting unit therefor" was invented by Pavel Zakharov (Volketswil, Switzerland) and Michael Mrochen (Zug, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a wearable activity parameter collecting device, a mounting unit for detachably mounting the wearable activity parameter collecting device to a wearable device and to a system comprising the wearable activity parameter collecting device and the mounting unit."

The patent was filed on Dec. 5, 2019, under Appli...