US Patent Issued to Essilor International on June 16 for "Method for fabricating microstructured inserts for injection molding" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,373, issued on June 16, was assigned to Essilor International (Charenton-le-pont, France).

"Method for fabricating microstructured inserts for injection molding" was invented by Elliot French (Charlton, Mass.), Burcin Ikizer (Lowell, Mass.), Zbigniew Tokarski (Woodstock, Conn.), Eric Gacoin (Paris) and Sebastien Henrion (Creteil, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming a mold insert includes forming a stamp, a surface of the stamp including a plurality of inverted microstructures formed thereon; and pressing the stamp into a medium disposed on a surface of a first mold insert to form a microstructured film, the mic...