US Patent Issued to Essilor International on June 23 for "Method for manufacturing a lens element adapted for correcting an abnormal refraction of an eye of a wearer" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,661, issued on June 23, was assigned to Essilor International (Charenton-le-pont, France).

"Method for manufacturing a lens element adapted for correcting an abnormal refraction of an eye of a wearer" was invented by Eric Gacoin (Charenton-le-Pont, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a lens element intended to be worn in front of an eye of a person, the lens element including two opposite optical faces and a plurality of optical elements each having an optical function of not focusing an image on the retina of the eye of the person so as to slow down the progression of the abnormal refraction...