ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,396, issued on July 15, was assigned to Essilor International (Charenton-le-Pont, France).

"Method for determining an ophthalmic lens adapted for correcting an abnormal refraction of an eye of a wearer" was invented by Bjorn Drobe (Singapore), Matthieu Guillot (Charenton-le-Pont, France), Bruno Fermigier (Charenton-le-Pont, France) and Damien Paille (Charenton-le-Pont, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for determining an ophthalmic lens configured to correct an abnormal refraction of an eye of a wearer and including at least three optical elements disposed on a surface of the ophthalmic lens to suppress or re...