ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,811, issued on July 29, was assigned to Brien Holden Vision Institute Ltd. (Sydney).

"Ophthalmic optical lens for vision correction having one or more areas of more positive power" was invented by Brien Anthony Holden (Kensington, Australia), Padmaja Rajagopal Sankaridurg (Maroubra, Australia), Klaus Ehrmann (Queenscliffe, Australia), Fabian Conrad (Maroubra, Australia) and Arthur Ho (Randwick, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to lens, methods of making, designing lens and/or methods using lens in which performance may be improved by providing one or more steps in the central portion of the ...