US Patent Issued to Magic Leap on Oct. 21 for "Tunable cylindrical lenses and head-mounted display including the same" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,665, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Tunable cylindrical lenses and head-mounted display including the same" was invented by Andrew Ian Russell (Weston, Fla.) and Joshua Naaman Haddock (Sarasota, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems include three optical elements arranged along an optical axis each having a different cylinder axis and a variable cylinder refractive power. Collectively, the three elements form a compound optical element having an overall spherical refractive power (SPH), cylinder refractive power (CYL), and cylinder axis (Axis) that can be varied according to a prescripti...