ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,388, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to AMO Groningen B.V. (Groningen, Netherlands).

"Multi-region refractive lenses for vision treatment" was invented by Robert Rosen (Groningen, Netherlands) and Franck Gounou (Groningen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved ophthalmic lenses, particularly intraocular lenses (IOLs), include features for vertex matching distance regions of such lenses. Exemplary ophthalmic lenses can include an optic disposed about an optical axis and having a refractive profile including a region having an add power and a first distance region and a second ...