US Patent Issued to Essilor International on Sept. 8 for "Manufacturing system configured to carry out a method for additively manufacturing a plurality of ophthalmic devices and such a method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,594, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Essilor International (Charenton-le-pont, France).

"Manufacturing system configured to carry out a method for additively manufacturing a plurality of ophthalmic devices and such a method" was invented by Maxime Lecompere (Maisons-Alfort, France), Laurent Huprel (Alfortville, France) and Pierre Leite (Breuillet, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing system carries out a method for additively manufacturing ophthalmic devices, and includes a tank filled with a predetermined material, a single curing device for curing volumes of the predetermined material to harden layers of the oph...