US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Sept. 16 for "Gradient-index liquid crystal lenses with adjustable flyback regions" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,842, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Gradient-index liquid crystal lenses with adjustable flyback regions" was invented by Afsoon Jamali (Issaquah, Wash.), Changwon Jang (Kirkland, Wash.), Zhimin Shi (Bellevue, Wash.), Sho Nakahara (Bothell, Wash.) and Eric Stratton (Snohomish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed system may include at least one gradient-index liquid crystal lens. The system may include a selection module that selects a viewing angle. The system may also include an adjustment module that dynamically adjusts a phase reset property of the gradien...