ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,988, issued on April 8, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Deformable lens with an extended range of stability" was invented by Andrew John Ouderkirk (Kirkland, Wash.), Nagi Hosni Elabbasi (Needham, Mass.), Christopher Stipe (Woodinville, Wash.), Spencer Allan Wells (Seattle), Kenneth Alexander Diest (Kirkland, Wash.), Christopher Yuan Ting Liao (Seattle), Liliana Ruiz Diaz (Redmond, Wash.), Taha Masood (Sammamish, Wash.), Laura Cressman (Carnation, Wash.) and James Howard Thomas Ransley (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromechanical actuator includes a primary electrode, a sec...