US Patent Issued to Swarovski-Optik on Jan. 20 for "Rangefinder for a telescope" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,791, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Swarovski-Optik AG & Co KG (Absam, Austria).

"Rangefinder for a telescope" was invented by Rene Zangerl (Hall, Austria) and Lukas Klingenschmid (Wattens, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a rangefinder for a telescope having a transmitter and a transmission beam path and having a first receiver and a first receiver beam path, wherein the first receiver beam path extends at least partially in a first observation beam path of the telescope. The rangefinder additionally comprises a second receiver with a second receiver beam path which is aligned in parallel to the fi...