ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,409, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Essilor International (Charenton-le-Pont, France).
"Lens element" was invented by Matthieu Guillot (Issy les Moulienaux, France), Samy Hamlaoui (Paris), Guillaume Giraudet (Orleans, France), David Rio (Gometz-le-Chatel, France) and Konogan Baranton (Montry, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens element intended to be worn in front of an eye of a wearer including at least a first and a second set of optical elements providing respectively a first and a second optical function. When worn by a wearer, an optical element of the first set is located at a greater distance from the center of rota...