US Patent Issued to Alcon on July 15 for "Systems and methods for insert placement to fabricate hybrid contact lenses" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,245, issued on July 15, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for insert placement to fabricate hybrid contact lenses" was invented by Yang Zheng (Alpharetta, Ga.), Cornelius Daniel Niculas (Suwanee, Ga.), Yuan Chang (Chicago), Junhao Ge (Shanghai), Steve Yun Zhang (Sugar Hill, Ga.), Justin Joel Aguayo (Duluth, Ga.), David Andrew Icenogle (Brookhaven, Ga.), Muhammad Waqas Asif (Madison, Wis.) and Daryl Reece (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for fabricating a hybrid contact lens product having a lens insert embedded at a precisely controlled location...