US Patent Issued to Banner Engineering on July 21 for "Lens and overmold method of manufacture" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,657, issued on July 21, was assigned to Banner Engineering Corp. (Minneapolis).

"Lens and overmold method of manufacture" was invented by Nicholas Brett Jarrett (Saint Bonifacius, Minn.), Chunmei Kang (Plymouth, Minn.), Darin Wampler (Prior Lake, Minn.), David William Franke (Golden Valley, Minn.) and Ryan Van Domelen (Saint Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the technology disclosed herein relate to a lens assembly including a lens base and a lens fill. The less base is constructed of a first material and defines a lens interior surface and a plurality of ribs extending axially from the lens interior surf...