ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,373, issued on May 20, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).
"Low melting point ionic liquids for infra-red liquid lens design" was invented by Benjamin Jean-Baptiste Francois Burger (Lyons, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid lens can include a lens body forming a cavity with a conducting liquid and an insulating liquid disposed therein, the conducting liquid substantially immiscible with the insulating liquid to define an interface between the conducting and insulating liquids. The conducting liquid can include an ionic compound of either a dicyanamide anion and a cation counterion, or a tricyanomethanide anion a...