ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,808, issued on March 11, was assigned to SIG SAUER INC. (Newington, N.H.).
"Reflex sight having emitter array" was invented by John P. Nichols (Tigard, Ore.) and Jason Clark (Beaverton, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reflex sight for a firearm includes an emitter array including a plurality of light emitters, each of the plurality of light emitters capable of being independently operated to produce light, a surface structured to reflect light from the emitter array to a user of the firearm, and a controller configured to receive input from the user and individually control the operation of the plurality of light emitters in t...