ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,721, issued on June 30, was assigned to OPENVISION Corp. (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

"Functional patch for use with contact lens" was invented by Ming-Yi Chou (Taoyuan County, Taiwan), Ta-Jen Hsing (Taipei City, Taiwan), Sung-Yuan Chiang (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Takahiro Takahashi (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A functional patch for use with a contact lens includes an attaching layer and a functional patterned layer. The contact lens and the attaching layer are made of different hydrophilic materials to present two net-like structures respectively contain a plurality of first pores and second pores, and the second...