ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,837, issued on May 27, was assigned to Swarovski-Optik AG & Co KG. (Austria).
"Observation telescope" was invented by Albert Fiedler (Innsbruck, Austria) and Martin Kuhn (Rieden, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a telescope optics for a telescopic observational instrument having an objective lens, having a prism erecting system and having an eyepiece lens, wherein an image of an object generated by the objective lens is located between the prism erecting system and the eyepiece lens, and wherein the objective lens, in an order starting from the object side, comprises a first lens group G1 with a positiv...