ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,592, issued on July 22, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).

"Intraocular lens having a specific, three-dimensionally curved haptic element" was invented by Stephanie Mueller (Neuruppin, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intraocular lens is provided which includes a single optical part, a haptic element, which is coupled to the optical part, and an optical main axis, which penetrates a front face and a rear face of the optical part, the haptic element having a first haptic part, which is in the form of a first ring and extends around the optical part, and at least one second haptic part, which is in the form...