ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,929, issued on April 14, was assigned to COOPERVISION INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (Fareham, Great Britain).
"Contact lens" was invented by Erwin C. Si (Alameda, Calif.), Nancy J. Keir (Pleasanton, Calif.), Yuwen Liu (Dublin, Calif.) and Inna Maltseva (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact lens having an amount of at least one cooling agent and at least one TRPV1 inhibitor releasably adhered is described as well as method of manufacturing the same. The contact lens can be comfortably worn by contact lens wearers and can increase the duration of comfortable lens wearing time and/or reduce lens awareness events and/or reduce co...