US Patent Issued to IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY) on June 30 for "Contact lenses having multiple wave plate" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,720, issued on June 30, was assigned to IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY) (Seoul, South Korea).

"Contact lenses having multiple wave plate" was invented by Seok Ho Song (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact lens made of multilayer wave plates includes two or more wave plates disposed between a corneal protective layer and lens surface layer thereof to increase the number of focal points. More particularly, the contact lens includes a lens surface layer; a corneal protective layer; and a wave plate layer in which two or more wave plates composed of a birefringent material a...