US Patent Issued to Alcon on Dec. 9 for "Method and system for inspecting an ophthalmic lens in an automated lens manufacturing process" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,947, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Method and system for inspecting an ophthalmic lens in an automated lens manufacturing process" was invented by Daniel Paulus (Miltenberg, Germany), Jens Hof (Grosswallstadt, Germany) and Susanne Fechner (Aschaffenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (6) for inspecting an ophthalmic lens (2), in particular a contact lens such as a soft contact lens (2), in an automated lens manufacturing process is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of acquiring (60) a plurality of images containing the ophthalmic lens (2) to be inspected as an imaged o...