ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,792, issued on March 25, was assigned to Essilor International (Charenton-le-Pont, France).

"Optical articles having embossed films defining encapsulated microlenses and methods of making the same" was invented by Matthieu Guillot (Charenton-le-Pont, France), Mathieu Meynen (Charenton-le-Pont, France), Hao-Wen Chiu (Charenton-le-Pont, France), Christophe Plessis (Charenton-le-Pont, France), Jeanne Marchal (Charenton-le-Pont, France) and Bjorn Drobe (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure includes optical articles comprising a film layer that has first and second film surfaces and is embossed such that the fi...