US Patent Issued to Hueck Folien on March 31 for "Optical switch devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,611, issued on March 31, was assigned to Hueck Folien Gesellschaft m.b.H. (Baumgartenberg, Austria).

"Optical switch devices" was invented by Christopher Chapman Rich (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.), Joel Mikael Petersen (Valley Village, Calif.), Roger Winston Phillips (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and John Michael Tamkin (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device includes an array of lenses and a plurality of segments disposed under the array of lenses. The plurality of segments corresponds to a plurality of images. Upon tilting the device at different viewing angle, the array of lenses presents images sequentially. In...