US Patent Issued to e-Vision Smart Optics on June 10 for "Flexible electro-active lens" (Virginia, Kansas, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,617, issued on June 10, was assigned to e-Vision Smart Optics Inc. (Sarasota, Fla.).

"Flexible electro-active lens" was invented by Ronald D. Blum (Roanoke, Va.), Joshua N. Haddock (Roanoke, Va.), William Kokonaski (Gig Harbor, Wash.) and John D. Hunkeler (Mission, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens including a flexible refractive optic having a fixed refractive index, an electro active element embedded within the flexible refractive optic, wherein the electro-active element has an alterable refractive index, and a controller electrically, connected to the electro-active element wherein when power is applied thereto the refra...