ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,130, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Optical device and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Wei-Lin Chen (Tainan, Taiwan), Ching-Chung Su (Tainan, Taiwan), Jung-Huei Peng (Hsinchu Hsien, Taiwan), Chun-Wen Cheng (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Chun-Hao Chou (Tainan, Taiwan) and Kuo-Cheng Lee (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device includes a substrate, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a first lens. The first electrode and the second electrode are over the substrate and configured to generate a first electric field. The fir...