US Patent Issued to Alcon on July 15 for "Method for making embedded hydrogel contact lenses" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,188, issued on July 15, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Method for making embedded hydrogel contact lenses" was invented by Cornelius Daniel Niculas (Suwanee, Ga.), David Andrew Icenogle (Brookhaven, Ga.), Zahra Bassampour (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Chandana Kolluru (Suwanee, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for producing embedded hydrogel contact lenses each having an insert that comprises alignment features capable of capable of aligning the insert in depth and radial position in a female mold half during cast molding of an embedded hydrogel contact lens. The alignment features pr...