US Patent Issued to Alcon on Jan. 20 for "Production line for the production of ophthalmic lenses" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,261, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Production line for the production of ophthalmic lenses" was invented by Matthias Schwab (Amorbach, Germany), Roger Biel (Aschaffenburg, Germany), Matthias Braun (Kleinwallstadt, Germany), Jens Eppig (Seligenstadt, Germany) and Shu Zong (Cumming, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated production line for the production of ophthalmic lenses comprises: a production line front end (1) comprising: a first injection-molding machine (10) and a second injection-molding machine (12) a casting module (14) comprising a filling station (144) and a capping stat...