ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,178, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Ophthalmic lens assembly" was invented by Angeles Marcia Almanza-Workman (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Jon H. Appleby (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Light weight ophthalmic lenses include a curved back lens attached to a curved front lens assembly having a functional element. An ophthalmic lens includes a curved front lens assembly and a curved back lens. The curved front lens assembly has an essentially constant thickness, forms an external world-side convex surface of the ophthalmic lens, and includes a functional element operable to modify...