US Patent Issued to AMO Groningen on March 25 for "Progressive power intraocular lens, and methods of use and manufacture" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,144, issued on March 25, was assigned to AMO Groningen B.V. (Groningen, Netherlands).

"Progressive power intraocular lens, and methods of use and manufacture" was invented by Carmen Canovas Vidal (Groningen, Netherlands), Aixa Alarcon Heredia (Groningen, Netherlands), Patricia Ann Piers (Groningen, Netherlands) and Hendrik A. Weeber (Groningen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved intraocular lenses (IOLs), include features for reducing side effects, such as halos, glare and best focus shifts, in multifocal refractive lenses and extended depth of focus lenses. Exemplary o...