ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,879, issued on April 14, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH (Aalen, Germany).
"Coated lens and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Jingye Liang (Guangdong, China) and Liu Ouyang (Guangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coated lens has a stamping which contains one or more ring-shaped focusing structures. A method for manufacturing such a coated lens is provided in which a coating composition is stamped. The coating composition includes at least one of an epoxide component and a (meth)acrylate component. The ring-shaped focusing structure(s) provide an additional power compared to the centra...