US Patent Issued to Apple on Jan. 13 for "Measuring optical power of a lens using a variable focus camera" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,846, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Measuring optical power of a lens using a variable focus camera" was invented by Matthew D Hollands (Cambridge, Great Britain) and James E Pedder (Oxon, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include a variable focus camera that is used during lens measurement operations. During the lens measurement operations, the variable focus camera may capture images of one or more targets with and without an intervening lens. Focus information obtained by the variable focus camera may be used to determine the spherical power, the cylindrical ...