US Patent Issued to Newton on June 16 for "Contour prism lens with progressive power" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,632, issued on June 16, 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 lens, having a position dependent optical power and a position dependent horizontal prism, and having a distance-vision reference point and a near-vision reference point, the contour prism lens being characterized by a coordinate system with its vertical axis running through the distance-vision reference point, wherein: the optical power at the near-vision reference point exceeds ...