US Patent Issued to Optotune Switzerland on July 7 for "Tunable optical component and method for fabrication of tunable optical component" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,972, issued on July 7, was assigned to Optotune Switzerland AG (Dietikon, Switzerland).

"Tunable optical component and method for fabrication of tunable optical component" was invented by Roman Patscheider (Winterthur, Switzerland), Christopher Laning (Windisch, Switzerland), David Andreas Niederer (Kuttigen, Switzerland) and Manuel Aschwanden (Allenwinden, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a tunable optical component (100) comprising a liquid chamber (101), a flexible membrane (1), a shaping element (3), and an actuator (2), wherein the liquid chamber (101) is filled with a liquid (102), the membrane...