ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,889, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to LEONARDO VISION S.R.L. (Montecatini Terme, Italy).
"Contact lens" was invented by Leonardo Pesi (Montecatini-Terme, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Contact lens that, during use, creates a hollow space between its concave internal surface and the convex external surface of the eye and contacts the corneal epithelium only for a fraction of its internal surface facing toward the eye thanks to the presence of a plurality of micro-protuberances which allow to raise the contact lens by a few micrometers with respect to the corneal surface."
The patent was filed on Jan. 12, 2021, under Applicat...