ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,342, issued on March 3, was assigned to Essilor International (Charenton-le-Pont, France).

"Method and apparatus for detecting optical device mis-adaptation" was invented by Aurelie Le Cain (Charenton-le-Pont, France), Konogan Baranton (Charenton-le-Pont, France) and Sebastien Fricker (Charenton-le-Pont, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for detecting mis-adaptation of an optical device to a wearer includes processing circuitry configured to receive and store over time head data relative to the head of the wearer when wearing and using the optical device, process the head data based on head data patterns associated w...