US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Vision International on March 24 for "Spectacle lens design, method of manufacturing a spectacle lens and method of providing a spectacle lens for at least retarding myopia progression" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,142, issued on March 24, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH (Aalen, Germany).

"Spectacle lens design, method of manufacturing a spectacle lens and method of providing a spectacle lens for at least retarding myopia progression" was invented by Dieter Braunger (Essingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spectacle lens design includes an aperture and at least two ring-shaped focusing structures surrounding the aperture. The aperture has a dioptric power, and the ring-shaped focusing structures surrounding the aperture provide an additional power relative to the dioptric power of the aperture. A ring-shaped dif...