US Patent Issued to AMO Groningen on Oct. 21 for "Achromatic lenses and lenses having diffractive profiles with irregular width for vision treatment" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,009, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to AMO Groningen B.V. (Groningen, Netherlands).

"Achromatic lenses and lenses having diffractive profiles with irregular width for vision treatment" was invented by Franck Gounou (Groningen, Netherlands), Hendrik A. Weeber (Groningen, Netherlands), Robert Rosen (Groningen, Netherlands), Carmen Canovas Vidal (Groningen, Netherlands) and Patricia A. Piers (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 providing improved extended depth of focus lenses. Exempl...