US Patent Issued to Newton on July 14 for "Contour prism lens with progressive power" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,329, issued on July 14, was assigned to Newton Inc. (Coppell, Texas).

"Contour prism lens with progressive power" was invented by Jason Robert Ryan (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Ferenc Raksi (Laguna Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contour prism progressive lens has a position dependent optical power and a position dependent horizontal prism, and a distance-vision reference point and a near-vision reference point. It is characterized by a coordinate system with its vertical axis running through the distance-vision reference point and has an optical power at the near-vision power reference point that exceeds the optical po...