ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,472, issued on May 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Tunable lens systems with passive matrix electrode arrays" was invented by Yu Horie (Cupertino, Calif.) and Patrick R. Gill (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pair of eyeglasses may include one or more adjustable lenses. An adjustable lens may include a stack of liquid crystal cells with passive matrix electrode arrays. Each passive matrix electrode array may include a pair of orthogonal electrodes that are rotated relative to other pairs of orthogonal electrodes in the stack. Control circuitry may apply different voltage profiles to the passive ...