ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,282, issued on March 3, was assigned to Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (Nanjing, China).

"Liquid lens controlled by interdigital electrode made of two insulated wires" was invented by Tao Chen (Nanjing, China), Qingyu Hu (Nanjing, China), Xiuting Shang (Nanjing, China), Jingyi Sun (Nanjing, China), Lingcheng Gu (Nanjing, China), Ke Ding (Nanjing, China), Huibin Liu (Nanjing, China), Xiaoyu Zhang (Nanjing, China) and Rongqing Xu (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid lens controlled by an interdigital electrode made of two insulated wires includes an inner core cavity body, the two insulated wires,...