US Patent Issued to Alcon on June 17 for "Production line for the production of ophthalmic lenses" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,384, issued on June 17, 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), Nils Schweizer (Bad Konig, Germany), Nicholas Gollas (Aschaffenburg, Germany), Susanne Fechner (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 mac...