US Patent Issued to INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY on June 10 for "Varifocal lens" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,646, issued on June 10, was assigned to INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY (Seoul, South Korea).

"Varifocal lens" was invented by SeongChan Jun (Seoul, South Korea), Sewon Park (Seoul, South Korea), YunJi Hwang (Seoul, South Korea) and Chengyi Li (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A varifocal lens is provided. A varifocal lens includes: a transparent substrate having a plate shape; a first lens layer stacked on a first area formed on one surface of the transparent substrate; a second lens layer stacked on a second area which is spaced apart from the first area and formed on the one surface of ...