US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 23 for "Adjusting a tunable lens in an electronic device" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,682, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Adjusting a tunable lens in an electronic device" was invented by Igor Stamenov (San Ramon, Calif.), Gareth D Hastings (San Jose, Calif.), James E Pedder (Oxon, Great Britain), Jason Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Matthew D Hollands (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Amrith V Ram (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include a lens module with a tunable lens. The tunable lens may be operable in multiple modes such as a normal mode, a presbyopia-mitigation mode, a near-focus mode, and a negative power boost mode. During operation, th...