ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,139, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Essilor International (Charenton-le-Pont, France).

"Predicting an optical equipment for a given person" was invented by Julien Andoche (Charenton-le-Pont, France) and Estelle Netter (Charenton-le-Pont, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining, for a given person, an optical equipment among a set comprising a plurality of optical equipments. The method further includes collecting a plurality of N reference datasets associated to at least one corresponding reference person and collecting a given dataset associated to the given person. Each dataset is indicative of a relative...