ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,074, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Dimming devices with pixelated liquid crystal physical gels" was invented by Xi Wu (Redmond, Wash.), Nicholas John Diorio Jr. (Duvall, Wash.), Gareth John Valentine (Kirkland, Wash.), Kai-Han Chang (Troy, Mich.), Chenrun Feng (Kent, Ohio), Afsoon Jamali (Issaquah, Wash.), Francis Lawrence Leard (Sudbury, Mass.), Jasmine Soria Sears (Portland, Ore.) and Olga Vladimirovna Barykina-Tassa (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device includes a first set of one or more electrodes, a second set of one or more electrodes dis...