US Patent Issued to AMO Groningen on March 4 for "Refractive extended depth of focus intraocular lens, and methods of use and manufacture" (Dutch, Portuguese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,529, issued on March 4, was assigned to AMO Groningen B.V. (Groningen, Netherlands).

"Refractive extended depth of focus intraocular lens, and methods of use and manufacture" was invented by Miguel Faria Ribeiro (Braga, Portugal), Franck Gounou (Groningen, Netherlands), Carmen Canovas Vidal (Groningen, Netherlands) and Aixa Alarcon Heredia (Haren, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for providing improved intraocular lenses (IOLs) and other refractive treatment modalities involve fabricating the IOL or developing the treatment based on a refractive profile. Exemplary techniques include obtaini...