US Patent Issued to COOPERVISION INTERNATIONAL on Sept. 9 for "Contact lens containing a diffractive optical element and related methods" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,361, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to COOPERVISION INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (Fareham, Great Britain).

"Contact lens containing a diffractive optical element and related methods" was invented by Edward James Harley Evans (Southampton, Great Britain) and Robert Oag (Southampton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a contact lens (100) including a diffractive optical element (101), an optical filter (103), and an optic axis (109) passing through the optical filter and the diffractive optical element. The diffractive optical element (101) is configured to focus visible light. The optical filter (10...