US Patent Issued to Atheneum Optical Sciences on July 8 for "Polymeric additive manufacturing of an ophthalmic lens" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,923, issued on July 8, was assigned to Atheneum Optical Sciences LLC (Orange Park, Fla.).

"Polymeric additive manufacturing of an ophthalmic lens" was invented by W. Anthony Martin (Orange Park, Fla.), Ganesh Narayanan Kumar (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.) and Randall Pugh (Jacksonville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for additive manufacture of an article corresponding with an energy transmissibility image. The article may include a contact lens or intraocular lens. The improvements are directed to repeated application of a monomer according to a pattern corresponding with the energy transmissibility image, such ...