US Patent Issued to Essilor International on Feb. 18 for "Application device and method to clean grinding surfaces in a machine for grinding ophthalmic lenses" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,870, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Essilor International (Charenton-le-pont, France).

"Application device and method to clean grinding surfaces in a machine for grinding ophthalmic lenses" was invented by Jean-Etienne Lepage (Charenton-le-Pont, France) and Sebastien Pinault (Charenton-le-Pont, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application device is configured to clean grinding surfaces in a machine for grinding ophthalmic lenses, the application device including: a central portion having so as to mount the application device in the grinding machine; and a peripheral edge configured to receive an application surface to coo...