US Patent Issued to ATHENEUM OPTICAL SCIENCES on July 29 for "Three-dimensional printing of optical devices" (British, American, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,740, issued on July 29, was assigned to ATHENEUM OPTICAL SCIENCES LLC (Orange Park, Fla.).

"Three-dimensional printing of optical devices" was invented by Ture Kindt-Larsen (Holte, Denmark), Wallace Anthony Martin (Orange Park, Fla.), Ganesh Narayanan Kumar (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.) and Michel Lucien Guillon (Jersey, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method for three-dimensional deposition printing to manufacture optical elements including ophthalmic devices by controlling the level of oxygen in the polymerization mixture and the printing environment to achieve precision in form and smoo...