US Patent Issued to Brien Holden Vision Institute on March 3 for "Treating ocular refractive error" (Australian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,339, issued on March 3, was assigned to Brien Holden Vision Institute Ltd. (Sydney).

"Treating ocular refractive error" was invented by Arthur Ho (Coogee, Australia), Padmaja Rajagopal Sankaridurg (Maroubra, Australia), Earl Leo Smith III (Houston) and Brien Anthony Holden (Kensington, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens for an eye that includes a zone with a first power profile for images received by the retina on the fovea, a zone with a second power profile for images received by the peripheral retina on the nasal side and a zone with a third power profile for images received by the peripheral retina on the temporal si...