ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,332, issued on March 18, was assigned to SIG SAUER INC. (Newington, N.H.).
"Digital reticle system" was invented by Andrew W. York (Portland, Ore.), Gregory Scott Smith (Canton, Ga.), Richard Bradley Brumfield (Athens, Ala.) and Joseph Fruechtel (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic aiming system includes an electro-mechanical reticle having a plurality of electrically powered holdover indicators disposed on a primary crosshair of the reticle, the holdover indicators configured to be individually selected and energized to a visible state, a rangefinder configured to generate range data, a computing device conf...