ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,916, issued on Feb. 10.
"Orientation independent coma compensating liquid lens" was invented by David Andreas Niederer (Kuttigen, Switzerland) and Stephan Smolka (Zurich, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a lens (1), comprising: a first chamber (C1) filled with a first transparent liquid (L1) comprising a first mass density (Rho1) and a first refractive index (n1), a second chamber (C2) filled with a second transparent liquid (L2) comprising a second mass density (Rho2) and a second refractive index (n2), and a transparent and elastically deformable first membrane (12) that separates the two ...