US Patent Issued to Alcon on May 27 for "Silicone hydrogel lens with a crosslinked hydrophilic coating" (Georgia, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,621, issued on May 27, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Silicone hydrogel lens with a crosslinked hydrophilic coating" was invented by Yongxing Qiu (Suwanee, Ga.), Newton T. Samuel (Suwanee, Ga.), John Dallas Pruitt (Suwanee, Ga.), Chandana Kolluru (Suwanee, Ga.), Arturo Norberto Medina (Duluth, Ga.), Lynn Cook Winterton (Keller, Texas), Daqing Wu (Suwanee, Ga.), Xinming Qian (Johns Creek, Ga.) and Jared Nelson (Buford, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is related to a cost-effective method for making a silicone hydrogel contact lens having a crosslinked hydrophilic coating thereon. A method of the ...