MUMBAI, India, July 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517057958 A) filed by Essilor International, Charenton-le-Pont, France, on June 17, for 'method of heating an optical element.'

Inventor(s) include Girard Stelie; and Maurice Sebastien.

The application for the patent was published on July 4, under issue no. 27/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A method of heating an optical element (10) uses a laser beam (B) and a beam shaping device (2). The beam shaping device is adapted with respect to geometry parameters of the optical element for providing the laser beam with a transverse power distribution (P(r)) such that irradiation of a surface (S) of the optica...