ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,766, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Essilor International (Charenton-le-Pont, France).
"Lens element" was invented by Eric Gacoin (Charenton-le-pont, France), Matthieu Guillot (Charenton-le-pont, France), Bruno Fermigier (Charenton-le-pont, France) and Gilles Le Saux (Charenton-le-Pont, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical lens intended to be worn in front of an eye of a wearer having at least one prescribed refractive power Px, the optical lens comprising two opposite optical faces and a plurality of contiguous optical elements at least part of the optical elements having an optical function of not focusing an image ...