ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,886, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Essilor International (Charenton-le-pont, France).
"Lens element" was invented by Eric Gacoin (Charenton-le-pont, France), Bruno Fermigier (Charenton-le-pont, France) and Matthieu Guillot (Charenton-le-pont, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens element intended to be worn in front of an eye of a wearer having a refraction area having a refractive power based on a prescription for said eye of the wearer, an a plurality of at least two optical elements having an optical function of not focusing an image on the retina of the eye of the wearer, wherein the refraction area comprises a plural...