US Patent Issued to poLight ASA on Dec. 9 for "Sensor based control of an optical device with a variable optical power or a variable beam deflection" (French, Belgian, Norwegian, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,178, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to poLight ASA (Tonsberg, Norway).

"Sensor based control of an optical device with a variable optical power or a variable beam deflection" was invented by Janne Tapani Kilpinen (Akaa, Finland), Vladimir Kartashov (Horten, Norway), Nicolas Tallaron (Neuville sur Saone, France), Alain Gillet (Galan, France) and Pierre Craen (Embourg, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a controllable optical assembly such as a controllable lens or a controllable beam deflector. The optical assembly comprises first and second cover members, wherein one of them is transparent while the other ...