ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,363, issued on May 12, was assigned to poLight ASA (Tonsberg, Norway).
"Thermal expansion compensation in tunable lenses" was invented by Pierre Craen (Embourg, Belgium) and Janne Tapani Kilpinen (Akaa, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method and to means for compensating thermal expansion in a tuneable lens. In particular, the present invention a tuneable lens comprising means for compensating thermal expansion and an apparatus, such as a camera module comprising a tunable lens comprising means for compensating thermal expansion."
The patent was filed on March 29, 2022, under Application No. ...