US Patent Issued on Oct. 6 for "Applications of an electrokinetic device for an imaging system" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,453, issued on Oct. 6.

"Applications of an electrokinetic device for an imaging system" was invented by James E. Abbott (Albany, Ore.), Timothy Koch (Albany, Ore.), Cassady Roop (Corvallis, Ore.) and Palitha Wickramanayake (Corvallis, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrokinetic device is configured as a dynamic lens cover and/or filter for an imaging assembly, e.g., of a mobile device, to selectively allow electromagnetic radiation to pass through a lens of the imaging assembly when the dynamic lens cover is in a first operating state or to prevent electromagnetic radiation from reaching the lens of the imaging assembly when...