US Patent Issued to Essilor International on June 30 for "Concealing non-optically transparent components of optical articles" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,034, issued on June 30, was assigned to Essilor International (Charenton-le-Pont, France).

"Concealing non-optically transparent components of optical articles" was invented by Maxime Lecompere (Charenton-le-Pont, France) and Mathieu Feuillade (Charenton-le-Pont, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method of concealing a non-optically transparent component of an optical article. The method comprises-providing (S7) an optical article comprising: -an optical lens comprising an eyeball side facing an eye of a person when the optical article is worn by the person and an object side opposing the eyeball side,...