ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,368, issued on July 15, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Polarization-selective varifocal liquid lens" was invented by Afsoon Jamali (Redmond, Wash.), Changwon Jang (Bellevue, Wash.) and Sandro Pintz (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A varifocal liquid lens includes a body filled with two different fluids separated by an interface of a variable curvature across a clear aperture of the varifocal liquid lens. At least one of the first or second fluids is birefringent, such that a refractive index difference between the first and second fluids and resulting optical power of the vari...