US Patent Issued to Alcon on Dec. 2 for "Method for inspecting a soft contact lens for the presence of an orange peel defect" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,191, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Method for inspecting a soft contact lens for the presence of an orange peel defect" was invented by Jasmin Bruckner (Aschaffenburg, Germany), Anika Braunwarth (Obernburg, Germany), Thomas Wasse (Worth, Germany) and Felix Brinckmann (RoBdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for inspecting a soft contact lens for an orange peel defect comprises the steps of: illuminating the whole lens through the transparent bottom with incoherent white illumination light; capturing an image of the lens at an image capturing location arranged in an image captur...