US Patent Issued on May 12 for "Wavefront engineered lenses for correction of presbyopia and astigmatism and nanoparticle-doped liquid crystal structures for continuously tunable phase modulation and adaptive lens" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,391, issued on May 12.

"Wavefront engineered lenses for correction of presbyopia and astigmatism and nanoparticle-doped liquid crystal structures for continuously tunable phase modulation and adaptive lens" was invented by Guoqiang Li (Upper Arlington, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, wavefront engineered contact/scleral/intraocular lenses correct presbyopia and/or astigmatism. Some aspects relate to apparatuses including structures doped with certain nanoparticles to enhance alignment of liquid crystal materials. Some embodiments relate to tunable optical lenses for vision correction that have a structure with...