US Patent Issued to OPTOTECH on Sept. 8 for "Machining apparatus for optical lenses, and manufacturing system having the same" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,460, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to OPTOTECH AG (Zuchwil, Switzerland).

"Machining apparatus for optical lenses, and manufacturing system having the same" was invented by Volker Harnickell (Ruttenen, Switzerland) and Ernst Bracher (Langendorf, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machining apparatus for machining optical lenses has a horizontally aligned conveyor section for transporting containers containing at least one optical lens, the conveyor section extending between an entry and opposite exit side of a module. The machining apparatus has a container buffer store and a container transport device, the latter being d...