US Patent Issued to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO on March 4 for "Controllably deformable mirror device" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,050, issued on March 4, was assigned to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

"Controllably deformable mirror device" was invented by Stefan Kuiper ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands) and Jan Roelof Nijenhuis (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deformable mirror device has a flexible layer with a front surface that forms a mirror surface or to which a mirror layer forming mirror surface is attached. The flexible layer consists homogeneously of a first material. Protrusions extend from the back surface of the flexible layer. The protrusions consist homogeneo...