ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,479, issued on April 15, was assigned to Grace Engineering Corp. (Memphis, Mich.).

"Macro alignment reticle sight system" was invented by Nathaniel E. Grace (Fort Gratiot, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aiming device is provided including an illumination device and an optical element wherein the illumination device projects a primary dot and at least one secondary alignment dot distal from the primary dot to aid a user in obtaining a view of the primary dot when the aiming device is in an aligned mode, the primary dot is visible within a field of view of the user, but the secondary alignment dot is not visible. When the aimin...