ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,998, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Essilor International (Charenton-le-Pont, France).

"Optical microstructure-containing laminate for ophthalmic lens incorporation" was invented by Aref Jallouli (Dallas), Zbigniew Tokarski (Dallas) and Hao-Wen Chiu (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a laminate, comprising a first film including a pattern of microstructures embossed on a first surface of thereof, each microstructure being arranged at a predetermined distance between adjacent microstructures, and a second film including structures arranged on a first surface thereof at positions corresponding ...