US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Vision International on July 14 for "Methods and devices for determining the position and/or orientation of a spectacle lens on a mounting" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,336, issued on July 14, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH (Aalen, Germany).

"Methods and devices for determining the position and/or orientation of a spectacle lens on a mounting" was invented by Adalbert HanBen (Aalen, Germany) and Elmar Rothe (Oberkochen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spectacle lens which has permanent markings is mounted on a mounting, in particular a suction mounting. The apparent location of the permanent markings is detected on the spectacle lens with a detection device. Additionally, the spectacle lens is illuminated eccentrically with respect to an optical axis of the detection d...