ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,289, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Essilor International (Charenton-le-Pont, France).

"System for determining a subjective value of an optical feature of at least a corrective lens adapted to an eye of a subject and associated method" was invented by Gildas Marin (Charenton-le-Pont, France), Martha Hernandez-Castaneda (Charenton-le-Pont, France), Adele Longo (Charenton-le-Pont, France) and Aurelie Le Cain (Charenton-le-Pont, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining a value of a magnitude associated with a subjective value of an optical feature of at least a corrective lens adapted to an eye of a subject, by...