ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,599, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Essilor International (Charenton-le-Pont, France).

"Methods for designing an ophthalmic tinted lens and ophthalmic tinted lenses, and corresponding ophthalmic tinted lens" was invented by Coralie Barrau (Charenton-le-Pont, France), Gildas Marin (Charenton-le-Pont, France), Cyril Guilloux (Charenton-le-Pont, France), Laurent Calixte (Paris), Elise Poletto (Charenton-le-Pont, France), Camille Ehrismann (Charenton-le-Pont, France) and Gilles Le Saux (Charenton-le-Pont, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is proposed a method for defining a design of an ophthalmic tinted lens provided with a t...