ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,179, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH (Aalen, Germany).

"Computer-implemented method for calculating a digital twin of a spectacle lens" was invented by Martin Reese (Aalen, Germany) and Christoph Menke (Oberkochen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for calculating a digital twin of a spectacle lens is provided to use the digital twin for a manufacture of the spectacle lens. The digital twin has a predefined power distribution and contains a layer stack with a plurality of individual layers, each layer having a non-uniform layer thickness with a spatial variati...