US Patent Issued to Essilor International on July 1 for "Method for manufacturing an optical component with improved quality surface using additive manufacturing" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,931, issued on July 1, was assigned to Essilor International (Charenton-le-Pont, France).

"Method for manufacturing an optical component with improved quality surface using additive manufacturing" was invented by Maxime Lecompere (Rambouillet, France), Pierre Leite (Breuillet, France), Jean-Marc Padiou (Champigny-sur-Marne, France) and Manuel Theodet (Quimper, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing an optical component having at least one optical function, comprising: -manufacturing using an additive manufacturing process at least part of an optical element (40) by depositing a plurality of predetermined volum...