ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,802, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Essilor International (Charenton-le-Pont, France).

"Method and system for superposing ophthalmic lenses in order to build an optical assembly" was invented by Laurent Bourcier (Dijon, France) and Antoine Monvoisin (Beire le Fort, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for superposing a first ophthalmic lens having a first face and a second ophthalmic lens having a second face in order to build an optical assembly delimited by the first and second faces. The method includes detecting respective positions in space and shapes of the first and second ophthalmic lenses, by using at least one s...