ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,097, issued on June 2, was assigned to Essilor International (Charenton-le-pont, France).

"Optical lens" was invented by Eric Gacoin (Charenton-le-Pont, France), Matthieu Guillot (Charenton-le-Pont, France), Bruno Fermigier (Charenton-le-Pont, France) and Gilles Le Saux (Charenton-le-Pont, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical lens to be worn in front of an eye of a wearer having at least one prescribed refractive power Px, the optical lens including two opposite optical faces and a plurality of contiguous optical elements at least part of the optical elements having an optical function of not focusing an image on the retin...