ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,056, issued on July 14, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"System and method for low-stress optical lens using a 3D-print correction technique" was invented by Sandro Pintz (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Kurt Jenkins (Sammamish, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A corrected optical lens includes an inner layer that includes a low stress optical lens and an outer layer that includes one or more corrective layers. The outer layer may be formed on at least a portion of an outer surface of the inner layer by scanning the outer surface of the inner layer, generating a surface characterization file based on...