US Patent Issued to COOPERVISION INTERNATIONAL on April 21 for "Contact lenses and methods relating thereto" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,876, issued on April 21, was assigned to COOPERVISION INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (Fareham, Great Britain).

"Contact lenses and methods relating thereto" was invented by Arthur Bradley (Bloomington, Ind.), Baskar Arumugam (Dublin, Calif.), Paul Chamberlain (Livermore, Calif.) and Martin Webber (Southampton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact lens (101), the lens (101) including an optic zone (102). The optic zone (102) comprises a central region (105), the central region (105) having a centre of curvature that is on an optical axis (119). The optic zone (102) comprises a first annular region (103). The first annular regio...