ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,928, issued on April 14, was assigned to ADDON OPTICS LTD. (Netanya, Israel).
"Determining a progressive lens optical design" was invented by Jed Arkin (Savyon, Israel) and Haim Engler (Maale Adumim, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are described, including providing a temporary progressive lens (20) that is configured for a subject's temporary use, based upon an initial progressive-lens optical design. The lens is composed of a base lens (22) and an attached additional and removable progressive lens part (24) for test purposes. Data that are indicative of suitability of the optical design for activities t...