ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,043, issued on June 3, was assigned to Cataltheia Group Inc..

"Soft contact lens and a packaging comprising such a soft contact lens" was invented by Alessandro Filippo (Puntarenas, Costa Rica).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A soft contact lens (4) comprises a solid component, which is based on a polymer, and a liquid component which is distributed in the solid component and which comprises at least one compound which is selected from vitamin E, vitamin B2 and the respective derivatives thereof. The contact lens has a degree of transmission of type A ultraviolet radiation greater than 50% and a degree of transmission of type B ultravio...