ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,146, issued on Nov. 11.
"Electronic device with a tunable lens" was invented by Igor Stamenov (Manteca, Calif.), Richard J. Topliss (Cambridge, Great Britain), Ran He (San Jose, Calif.), Peng Lv (San Jose, Calif.), Yuan Li (Campbell, Calif.), James E. Pedder (Oxfordshire, Great Britain) and Thomas M. Gregory (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens module may include a transparent lens element, a lens shaping structure that is coupled to the transparent lens element, and a plurality of actuators that are configured to adjust a position of the lens shaping structure to adjust the transparent lens element. T...