ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,824, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Essilor International (Charenton-le-Pont, France).

"Anti-reflective coating for side reflection" was invented by William Trottier-Lapointe (Charenton-le-pont, France) and Pauline Colas (Charenton-le-pont, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an optical article comprising an anti-reflective edge coating, and to processes for coating an edge an surface of optical article, such as an optical lens, with an anti-reflective coating. The anti-reflective edge coating of optical article according to the invention is suitable for reducing and/or cancelling the visibility of at l...