ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,599, issued on March 25.
"Shape changing optical device for ophthalmic testing devices" was invented by Roman Patscheider (Winterthur, Switzerland), Manuel Aschwanden (Allenwinden, Switzerland), David Andreas Niederer (Kuttigen, Switzerland), Chris Laning (Windisch, Switzerland) and Aaron Gerratt (Zurich, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to An optical device (1), particularly for an ophthalmic device, comprising: a container (2) enclosing an internal space (3) of the container (2), wherein the internal space (3) is filled with a transparent liquid (L), and wherein the container (2) comprises a...