US Patent Issued to SNAP on Sept. 9 for "Eyewear device lens retention mechanism" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,358, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Eyewear device lens retention mechanism" was invented by John Bernard Ardisana II (Torrance, Calif.), Teodor Dabov (Los Angeles), Mathias Andreas Hintermann (Playa Vista, Calif.), Douglas Wayne Moskowitz (Marina Del Rey, Calif.) and Ashutosh Y. Shukla (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An eyewear device has a lens retention mechanism that establishes electrical contact between onboard electronics and a lens ring by a resiliently compressible electrical contact member, such as a spring washer, located within a housing defined by a body of the eyewear ...