ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,018, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Brien Holden Vision Institute Ltd. (Sydney).

"Optical lens with halo reduction" was invented by Ofer Limon (Kfar-Saba, Israel), Zeev Zalevsky (Rosh HaAyin, Israel), Alex Zlotnik (Ashdod, Israel) and Shai Ben-Yaish (Nechalim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for use in reducing a size of halo effect in an ophthalmic lens. The method comprises: providing data indicative of a given ophthalmic lens with a first pattern providing prescribed vision improvement, processing said data indicative of the features of the first pattern and generating data indicative of a variation ...