US Patent Issued to ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL on April 14 for "Manufacturing system configured to carry out a method for additively manufacturing an ophthalmic device and such a method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,089, issued on April 14, was assigned to ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (Charenton-le-Pont, France).

"Manufacturing system configured to carry out a method for additively manufacturing an ophthalmic device and such a method" was invented by Maxime Lecompere (Maisons-Alfort, France), Pierre Leite (Breuillet, France) and Laurent Huprel (Alfortville, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides an additive manufacturing system comprising a tank (10) filled with a volume of a predetermined material (11), a building platform (20) on which layers (3) made from the predetermined material are formed, a curing device (12) configured ...