US Patent Issued to Baden-Wuerttemberg Stiftung gGmbH on May 27 for "Actuatable optical device, method of fabricating the device, and use of a magnetic substance" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,600, issued on May 27, was assigned to Baden-Wuerttemberg Stiftung gGmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Actuatable optical device, method of fabricating the device, and use of a magnetic substance" was invented by Simon Thiele (Stuttgart, Germany), Chris Jung (Rielasingen-Worblingen, Germany), Harald Giessen (Marnheim, Germany) and Alois M. Herkommer (Aalen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a 3D-printed actuatable optical device and a method for fabricating the actuatable optical device. The method comprises the following steps: forming a three-dimensional structure (50) of the optical device (100) with the aid...