US Patent Issued to Alcon on Nov. 4 for "Ophthalmic lens having morphed sinusoidal phase shift structures" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,386, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Ophthalmic lens having morphed sinusoidal phase shift structures" was invented by Xin Hong (Fort Worth, Texas), William Andrew Maxwell (Fresno, Calif.) and Xin Wei (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ophthalmic lens includes an optic comprising an anterior surface, a posterior surface, and an optical axis. At least one of the anterior surface and the posterior surface has a surface profile including a base curvature and a plurality of morphed sinusoidal phase shift structures. The base curvature may correspond to a base optical power of the ophtha...