ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,909, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Essilor International (Charenton-le-Pont, France).

"Method of manufacturing an ophthalmic lens" was invented by Yu Liu (Singapore), Jinhhao Ng (Singapore), Yassine Fakhreddine (Singapore), Muhammad Leman (Singapore) and Eric Gacoin (Charenton-le-Pont, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of manufacturing an ophthalmic lens to be mounted into a frame, including: a step of acquiring an optical prescription for the future wearer of the ophthalmic lens and an information relative to the ophthalmic lens and/or to the future wearer and/or to the frame; a step of calculating a s...