US Patent Issued to ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL on July 21 for "Lens element with improved visual performance" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,744, issued on July 21, was assigned to ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (Charenton-le-Pont, France).

"Lens element with improved visual performance" was invented by Guillaume Giraudet (Orleans, France), David Rio (Gometz-le-Chatel, France), Matthieu Guillot (Issy les Moulineaux, France), Samy Hamlaoui (Paris) and Bruno Fermigier (Maisons-Alfort, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens element to be worn by a wearer and to provide a refractive power based on a prescription of the wearer is provided for correcting an abnormal refraction of the eye of the wearer, the lens element including: an optical microstructure having an optical functio...