US Patent Issued to Alcon on Sept. 30 for "Intraocular lens platform having improved haptic force distribution" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,011, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Intraocular lens platform having improved haptic force distribution" was invented by Stephen John Collins (Fort Worth, Texas), Rakhi Jain (Fort Worth, Texas), John Evan Radle (Flower Mound, Texas), Jian Liu (Keller, Texas) and Michael Lee Mangum (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

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 optic edge extending between the anterior surface and the posterior surface, the optic having an optical axis. The ophthalmic lens further includes a plurality of haptic...