US Patent Issued to Snap on July 15 for "Projection lens with four glass elements having spherical surfaces" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,342, issued on July 15, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Projection lens with four glass elements having spherical surfaces" was invented by Robert Matthew Bates (Erie, Colo.) and Adam Douglas Greengard (Lafayette, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A projection lens can include four lens elements, each lens element being formed from glass and including spherical or planar incident and exiting surfaces. Compared to a projection lens that uses three lens elements, the four-element projection lens has relaxed manufactured and alignment tolerances. Unlike a projection lens that uses one or more plastic elements or us...