ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,269, issued on April 7, was assigned to Essilor International (Charenton-le-pont, France).
"Lens element" was invented by Matthieu Guillot (Charenton-le-pont, France), Bruno Fermigier (Charenton-le-pont, France), Carlos Rego (Charenton-le-pont, France) and Eric Gacoin (Charenton-le-pont, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens element intended to be worn in front of an eye of a wearer, the lens element including at least two first areas having a refractive power based on a prescription of the wearer for said eye of the wearer, a plurality of second areas having at least a second optical function in specific wearing conditions, w...