US Patent Issued to Alcon on Sept. 8 for "Apparatus and method for photolithographically forming an ophthalmic lens" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,606, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Apparatus and method for photolithographically forming an ophthalmic lens" 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: "An apparatus (1) for photolithographically forming an ophthalmic lens (L) comprises: a container (2) comprising a container bottom (20) with an inner surface (200) including a concave portion (201); a piston (4) comprising a distal piston end face (400) with a convex portion (401); wherein the piston (4) is arranged in the container (2) such that the convex portion...