US Patent Issued to Alcon on Feb. 10 for "Method for optically inspecting an ophthalmic lens to determine an orientation state and an inversion state of an ophthalmic lens" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,680, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Method for optically inspecting an ophthalmic lens to determine an orientation state and an inversion state of an ophthalmic lens" was invented by Niyazi Tekeli (Eschau, Germany) and Susanne Fechner (Aschaffenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for optically inspecting an ophthalmic lens in an automated lens production process to determine an orientation state and an inversion state of the ophthalmic lens. The method comprises the steps of acquiring an image of the ophthalmic lens, determining from the acquired image an orientation value of...