ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,842, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Sheltered Wings Inc. (Barneveld, Wis.).
"Rifle scope turret with tool-free zeroing" was invented by David Hamilton (Barneveld, Wis.), Rob Morell (Barneveld, Wis.), Seth Toy (Barneveld, Wis.) and Scott Parks (Barneveld, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A viewing optic is disclosed. In one embodiment, the viewing optic is a rifle scope having a scope body, a movable optical element defining an optical axis connected to the scope body, a turret and a zero point adjustment subassembly. The turret includes a turret screw, a turret chassis subassembly and a turret cap. The turret screw defines a s...