ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,101, issued on May 5, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH (Aalen, Germany).

"Method for producing a semi-finished spectacle lens and semi-finished spectacle lens" was invented by Ralf Meschenmoser (Essingen, Germany), Dennis Klora (Stuttgart, Germany) and Marc Ellenrieder (Aalen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a semi-finished spectacle lens and a semi-finished spectacle lens includes identifying the semi-finished spectacle lens by applying a removable sticker having a unique code to the semi-finished spectacle lens. The semi-finished spectacle lens has an embossed code that is engraved in...