US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 28 for "Tunable lens in an electronic device controlled using a paired electronic device" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,451, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Tunable lens in an electronic device controlled using a paired electronic device" was invented by James E Pedder (Oxon, Great Britain), Igor Stamenov (San Ramon, Calif.), Matthew D Hollands (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Thomas M Gregory (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-mounted device may include a lens module with a least one adjustable lens. The head-mounted device may be wirelessly paired to an electronic device such as a cellular telephone, watch, laptop computer, etc. To correct for presbyopia, the optical power of adjustable ...