ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,569, issued on May 5, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).
"Primary packaging line for ophthalmic articles" was invented by Felix Brinckmann (RoBdorf, Germany) and Nils Schweizer (Bad Konig, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Primary Packaging Line using a single carrier tray concept allows to have a lean setup of the lens transfer/ripping process from the upstream Inspection Module, blister strip formation after the inspection and a shell reusage system in case of detected missing or multiple lenses by the inspection. The primary packaging line for packaging ophthalmic articles comprises: shell supply and placemen...