US Patent Issued to Essilor International on July 15 for "Assembly for molding a lens and a method thereof" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,246, issued on July 15, was assigned to Essilor International (Charenton-le-Pont, France).

"Assembly for molding a lens and a method thereof" was invented by Laurent Chippaux (Ladkrabang-Thailande, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for molding a lens including a peripheral gasket member having a surrounding wall around an axis to define a through-cavity, the surrounding wall having an internal circumferential ridge portion protruding inwardly towards the axis and partitioning the surrounding wall into an upper wall portion and a lower wall portion, wherein the internal circumferential ridge portion includes a first ri...