ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,006, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).
"Accommodating intraocular lenses" was invented by Terah Whiting Smiley (Davis, Calif.), Daniel Hildebrand (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Bryan Patrick Flaherty (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Accommodating intraocular lenses including an optic having an anterior element and a posterior element defining an optic fluid chamber, wherein the optic is aspheric across all powers throughout accommodation or disaccommodation. Intraocular lenses, optionally accommodating, where an optic portion is centered with a midline of a height of the peripheral ...