US Patent Issued to Atheneum Optical Sciences on Aug. 25 for "Multifocal ophthalmic lens having a plurality of layers of cured polymerizable mixture" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,169, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Atheneum Optical Sciences LLC (Orange Park, Fla.).

"Multifocal ophthalmic lens having a plurality of layers of cured polymerizable mixture" was invented by W. Anthony Martin (Orange Park, Fla.), Randall Pugh (Jacksonville, Fla.) and Ganesh Narayanan Kumar (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multifocal ophthalmic lens and methods of manufacture of the same using additive manufacturing. The multifocal lens includes a front surface and a back surface meeting at a peripheral edge, and a lens center; and a plurality of layers of cured polymerizable mixture each having a lower s...