US Patent Issued to Alcon on July 1 for "Production line for the production of ophthalmic lenses" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,951, issued on July 1, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Production line for the production of ophthalmic lenses" was invented by Matthias Schwab (Amorbach, Germany), Matthias Braun (Kleinwallstadt, Germany), Roger Biel (Aschaffenburg, 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 station (145); a stacking module (15) and ...