US Patent Issued to OPTOTUNE SWITZERLAND on Oct. 28 for "Tunable optical device" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,405, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to OPTOTUNE SWITZERLAND AG (Dietikon, Switzerland).

"Tunable optical device" was invented by David Andreas Niederer (Kuttigen, Switzerland), Christopher Laning (Windisch, Switzerland) and Roman Patscheider (Winterthur, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tunable optical device comprising an actuator, a transmission element, a mount and an optical component, wherein the optical component comprises a window member and a ring member, wherein an optical property of the optical component is adjustable by altering the position of the ring member with respect to the window member. The actuator is ...