US Patent Issued to AMO Groningen on Jan. 13 for "Partial coating of intraocular lenses using spatial atomic layer deposition" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,920, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to AMO Groningen B.V. (Groningen, Netherlands).

"Partial coating of intraocular lenses using spatial atomic layer deposition" was invented by Martin Dinant Bijker (Helmond, Netherlands), Emerentius Marie Josephus Antonius Van Dijk (Bergeijk, Netherlands), Theophilus Bogaert (Groningen, Netherlands) and Klaas Sikkens (Briltil, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for efficiently modifying the surface of an intraocular lenses to reduce tackiness and improve lens unfold time and unfold time consistency, and a product created using the system and method, is disclosed. In some...