US Patent Issued to OPTOTUNE SWITZERLAND on June 3 for "Tunable optical device" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,968, issued on June 3, was assigned to OPTOTUNE SWITZERLAND AG (Dietikon, Switzerland).

"Tunable optical device" was invented by Manuel Aschwanden (Allenwinden, Switzerland), David Andreas Niederer (Kuttigen, Switzerland), Roman Patscheider (Winterthur, Switzerland), Christopher Laning (Windisch, Switzerland) and Pit Gebbers (Dietikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tunable optical device comprising an optical element, an actuator and a transmission unit, wherein the transmission unit comprises a first fiber, the first fiber is arranged to transmit a tensile force from the actuator to the optical element, and the tensile f...