ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,648, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to JOURNEY1 INC (South San Francisco, Calif.).
"Astigmatism correcting contact lenses" was invented by Eugene De Juan Jr. (South San Francisco, Calif.), Yair Alster (Tel Aviv, Israel), Barak Azmon (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yoni Manor (Haifa, Israel), Omer Rafaeli (Rishpon, Israel), Matt Clarke (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Jonathan Shahar (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to contact lenses for the correcting a refractive error, particularly astigmatism, and other corneal irregularities. An exemplary lens comprises an inner portion, a peripheral porti...