US Patent Issued to Essilor International on July 14 for "Soft optical patch with light filtration and vision correction for ophthalmic applications" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,326, issued on July 14, was assigned to Essilor International (Charenton-le-Pont, France).

"Soft optical patch with light filtration and vision correction for ophthalmic applications" was invented by Haifeng Shan (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Hao-Wen Chiu (Holden, Mass.), Elliot French (Charlton, Mass.) and Aref Jallouli (Shrewsbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical article, includes: a first surface and a second surface, wherein at least one microstructure is patterned on the second surface to form a microstructure pattern, the microstructure pattern including a plurality of microlenses configured to adjust a focus of the opti...