US Patent Issued to COOPERVISION INTERNATIONAL on March 17 for "Radiation blockers for contact lenses" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,345, issued on March 17, was assigned to COOPERVISION INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (Fareham, Great Britain).

"Radiation blockers for contact lenses" was invented by William Mitchell (Chandler's Ford, Great Britain), Ian Gibson (Southampton, Great Britain), Robert Andrew Broad (Hampshire, Great Britain), David Morsley (Hampshire, Great Britain), Katarzyna Piskorczyk (Southampton, Great Britain) and Laura Simpson (Southampton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydrogel contact lens formulation for forming the polymeric body of a hydrogel contact lens comprising: a first high energy visible light (HEVL) absorber comprising a benzotr...