US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Vision International on Oct. 20 for "Coating device and method for supplying a lacquer and a solvent to a lacquer mixture" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,544, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH (Aalen, Germany).

"Coating device and method for supplying a lacquer and a solvent to a lacquer mixture" was invented by Norbert Kurz (Aalen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coating device for dip coating an ophthalmic lens is provided. The coating device includes a lacquer basin for receiving a lacquer mixture, which contains a lacquer and a solvent. The coating device has an overflow channel arranged at the lacquer basin for collecting the lacquer mixture overflowing from the lacquer basin, and a tubing system for providing an influx of the lacque...