US Patent Issued to Aptiv Technologies on Jan. 27 for "Lens cap with bistable membrane for spring effect between concave and convex positions" (Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,716, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Lens cap with bistable membrane for spring effect between concave and convex positions" was invented by Pawel Hebda (Cracow, Poland), Maciej Krzanowski (Cracow, Poland), Witold Poreda (Cracow, Poland), Jakub Szela (Cracow, Poland) and Miroslaw Zurowski (Cracow, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens cap for protecting a lens having an optical portion, the lens cap having a base with a spring membrane, and a sidewall arranged to surround the optical portion, so as to create a cavity between the base and the optical portion. The spring mem...