US Patent Issued to Johnson & Johnson Vision Care on Jan. 27 for "Contact lens with improved tear film optical quality" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,623, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Inc. (Jacksonville, Fla.).

"Contact lens with improved tear film optical quality" was invented by John R. Buch (Jacksonville, Fla.), Jie Xu (St. Johns, Fla.), Patricia Martin (Jacksonville, Fla.), Shivkumar Mahadevan (Jacksonville, Fla.) and Dawn D. Wright (St. Augustine, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are polymerizable high energy light absorbing compounds. The compounds absorb various wavelengths of ultraviolet and/or high energy visible light and are suitable for incorporation in various products, such as biomedical devices and ophthalmic devices....