ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,017, issued on March 3, was assigned to ADDON OPTICS LTD. (Netanya, Israel).
"Shaping an ophthalmic lens" was invented by Izhar Halahmi (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Haim Engler (Hashmonaim, Israel), Jed Arkin (Savyon, Israel), Amir Erlichman (Herzelia, Israel), Roy Cohen (Beit Yanai, Israel) and Arye Bar Erez (Kfar Sirkin, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are described including an additional lens (24) made from an amorphous viscoelastic material and having an optical design. A curvature of the additional lens (24) is changed such as to conform with a curvature of abase eyeglasses lens (22), without causing a lo...