US Patent Issued to Docter Optics on June 10 for "Method for producing an optical element from plastic" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,161, issued on June 10, was assigned to Docter Optics SE (Neustadt an der Orla, Germany).

"Method for producing an optical element from plastic" was invented by Florian Pilz (Neustadt an der Orla, Germany) and Sven Frohlich (Neustadt an der Orla, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method for producing an optical element having at least one optically effective surface. The optically effective surface comprises a contour and a surface structure superimposed on the contour. Transparent liquid plastic is injection-molded by means of a (smooth) injection mold of an injection molding machine (500) in depende...