US Patent Issued to CONEXUS LENS on June 3 for "Reducing effects caused by formation of multiple foci in a deformable lens during changes of applanation of surfaces thereof" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,972, issued on June 3, was assigned to CONEXUS LENS INC. (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Reducing effects caused by formation of multiple foci in a deformable lens during changes of applanation of surfaces thereof" was invented by Sean J. McCafferty (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Accommodating (re-focusable) lens system that includes multiple elastically-deformable lenslets sequentially disposed along an optical axis and that has an optical power that is varied by changing the degree of applanation of an area of contact between the constituent lenslets in response to variation of force applied to the lenses axially by an external ele...