US Patent Issued to poLight ASA on Sept. 2 for "Controllable lens actuated via flexure joints" (Belgian, Norwegian, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,406, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to poLight ASA (Skoppum, Norway).

"Controllable lens actuated via flexure joints" was invented by Pierre Craen (Embourg, Belgium), Janne Tapani Kilpinen (Akaa, Finland) and Vladimir Kartashov (Horten, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a controllable lens with variable optical power. The lens comprises a first and second cover members (111, 112), a transparent, deformable, non-fluid body (105) sandwiched between the first and second i transparent cover members, so that the first and second transparent cover members and non-fluid body constitute a lens, one or more actua...