US Patent Issued to COOPERVISION INTERNATIONAL on July 1 for "Orthokeratology contact lenses and related methods" (California, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,963, issued on July 1, was assigned to COOPERVISION INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (Fareham, Great Britain).

"Orthokeratology contact lenses and related methods" was invented by David S. Hammond (Pleasanton, Calif.), Arthur Bradley (Bloomington, Ind.), Baskar Arumugam (Dublin, Calif.), Myhanh Nguyen (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Paul Chamberlain (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides orthokeratology lenses (201) and methods of manufacturing such lenses (201). The orthokeratology lenses (201) disclosed herein comprise a correction region (206) for reducing the curvature of a central portion of a cornea, an ann...