ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,685, issued on June 3, was assigned to Rosemount Aerospace Inc. (Burnsville, Minn.).
"Positional lens locking" was invented by Jeffrey Danicich (Savage, Minn.) and Curtis J. Wicks (Deerfield Beach, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positional lens locking assembly for focusing and maintaining focus of a camera lens assembly includes a lens tube, a camera housing, a sealing member, and a locking member. The lens tube has a head and a barrel. The head extends outward from the barrel and the barrel has a threaded portion. The camera housing has a first threaded bore configured to receive the threaded portion of the barrel. The sealin...