US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Feb. 24 for "Bi-cylindrical piezoelectric actuated optical lens" (Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,746, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Bi-cylindrical piezoelectric actuated optical lens" was invented by Nagi Elabbasi (Southborough, Mass.), Christopher Yuan Ting Liao (Seattle), Jonathan Robert Peterson (Woodinville, Wash.), Sheng Ye (Redmond, Wash.), Eugene Cho (Seattle), Spencer Allan Wells (Seattle), Andrew John Ouderkirk (Kirkland, Wash.) and Emma Mullen (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid lens with flexible transparent active layers on both sides of a fluid is transformed along two distinct deformation axes. The flexible transparent active layers include pi...