ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,410, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Eyeglass devices and related methods" was invented by Christopher Stipe (Woodinville, Wash.), Marina Zannoli (Bloomington, Ind.), Ian Erkelens (Kirkland, Wash.), Andrew John Ouderkirk (Kirkland, Wash.), Spencer Allan Wells (Seattle), Eugene Cho (Seattle), John Cooke (Bothell, Wash.), Robin Sharma (Woodinville, Wash.) and Jonathan Robert Peterson (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Eyeglass devices may include a frame shaped and sized to be worn by a user at least partially in front of the user's eyes, a varifocal optical elemen...