US Patent Issued to Smith Sport Optics on April 14 for "Goggle with replaceable lens" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,933, issued on April 14, was assigned to Smith Sport Optics Inc. (Portland, Ore.).

"Goggle with replaceable lens" was invented by Keith Langenwalter (Portland, Ore.), Eric Thorsell (Portland, Ore.), John Ohran (West Linn, Ore.), Will McNeal (Portland, Ore.), Nicolas Ramirez (Portland, Ore.), Matt Capozzi (Bend, Ore.) and Scott Layton (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A goggle may include a goggle frame, a lens assembly magnetically coupled to the goggle frame, and first and second retention features securing the lens assembly to the goggle frame at first and second locations, respectively, to resist decoupling of the le...