US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on June 23 for "Wide field of view (FOV) optical lens assembly with tunable optical lens" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,619, issued on June 23, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Wide field of view (FOV) optical lens assembly with tunable optical lens" was invented by Dongmin Yang (San Jose, Calif.), Romeo Iguico Mercado (Fremont, Calif.), Yi Zhou (San Jose, Calif.) and Yizhi Xiong (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical lens assembly with an electrically controlled, tunable optical lens with an attached aperture stop provides autofocus or similar functionalities in a camera with a wide field of view (FOV) (that is larger than 100 degrees in diagonal direction). The tunable optical lens is pos...