ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,285, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"User interfaces for adjusting a tunable lens" was invented by James E Pedder (Oxon, Great Britain), Gareth D Hastings (San Jose, Calif.), Igor Stamenov (San Ramon, Calif.) and Matthew D Hollands (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include a display and a lens module through which the display is viewable. The lens module may include a tunable lens with an adjustable spherical power, cylindrical axis, and/or cylindrical power. To tune the tunable lens to compensate for a viewer's eyesight, the display may present at leas...