US Patent Issued to National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University on Jan. 27 for "Surface-modified contact lens, method of preparing the same, and method of modifying surface of polymeric material" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,619, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Surface-modified contact lens, method of preparing the same, and method of modifying surface of polymeric material" was invented by Hsin-Chieh Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ting-Yu Su (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a surface-modified contact lens including a lens body, a first modification layer inside the lens body, and a second modification layer on a surface of the lens body, in which the first modification layer and the second modification layer are connected through the surface, the first modi...