US Patent Issued to Essilor International on June 10 for "Method of laminating a functional film onto an optical article and optical article" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,220, issued on June 10, was assigned to Essilor International (Charenton-le-Pont, France).

"Method of laminating a functional film onto an optical article and optical article" was invented by Youval Katzman (Kibbutz Shamir, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This method of laminating a functional film onto an optical article includes: thermoforming the functional film so as to provide the functional film with a predetermined target curvature based on a curvature of a face of the optical article on which the functional film is to be applied; applying the functional film onto that face of the optical article; pressing the functional...