US Patent Issued to Atheneum Optical Sciences on May 27 for "Additive manufacturing of an optical element" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,815, issued on May 27, was assigned to Atheneum Optical Sciences LLC (Orange Park, Fla.).

"Additive manufacturing of an optical element" 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 optical element corresponding with an energy transmissibility image. The optical element may include a contact lens or intraocular lens. The optical element may be formed via intermittent pinning of deposited polymerizable mixture, partial cure, and final cure of the deposited p...