ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,988, issued on March 31, was assigned to SQUAREMIND (Paris).

"Method for constructing an image from a variable focus optical device" was invented by Ali Khachlouf (Paris) and Tanguy Serrat (Saint-Cloud, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for acquiring images of a first surface of a human body using a image capturing device including a variable focus optics, the method including acquisitions of a plurality of images using the image capturing device, the acquisitions being carried out by varying the focal length of the variable focus optics according to a control law; constructing a sharp image of a portion of the surface ...