US Patent Issued to Optotune Switzerland on Nov. 25 for "Tunable lens and method for operating a tunable lens" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,091, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Optotune Switzerland AG (Dietikon, Switzerland).

"Tunable lens and method for operating a tunable lens" was invented by Roman Patscheider (Winterthur, Switzerland), Christopher Laning (Windisch, Switzerland), Erik Hebestreit (Regensdorf, Switzerland), Manuel Aschwanden (Allenwinden, Switzerland), David Andreas Niederer (Kuttigen, Switzerland) and Stephan Smolka (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tunable lens (1) comprising a fluidic volume (2), a flexible membrane (3) and a shaping element (4), wherein the membrane (3) delimits the fluidic volume (2) on one side, the shaping el...