US Patent Issued to Magic Leap on April 21 for "Dynamically actuable diffractive optical element" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,870, issued on April 21, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Dynamically actuable diffractive optical element" was invented by Ivan Li Chuen Yeoh (Tampa, Fla.) and Lionel Ernest Edwin (Hollywood, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamically actuable lens includes a substrate having a surface and a metasurface diffractive optical element (DOE) formed on the surface. The metasurface DOE includes a plurality of raised portions and defines a plurality of recesses between adjacent raised portions. The dynamically actuable lens also includes a movable cover overlying the metasurface DOE and comprising a hydrophilic m...