US Patent Issued to Alcon on Aug. 25 for "Method for making embedded hydrogel contact lenses" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,186, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Method for making embedded hydrogel contact lenses" was invented by James Reid Lisk Jr. (Buford, Ga.), Thae Hoon An (Duluth, Ga.), Daryl Reece (Atlanta), Zahra Bassampour (Alpharetta, Ga.), Tudor Stanescu (Dacula, Ga.), Honghui Lu (Johns Creek, Ga.), Justin Joel Aguayo (Duluth, Ga.), Aaron Luke Leathley-Andrew (Gainesville, Ga.) and Chandana Kolluru (Suwanee, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed to a cast molding method for making embedded hydrogel contact lenses. The method comprises a step of actinically curing a lens-forming compos...