US Patent Issued to Johnson & Johnson Vision Care on June 3 for "Optical lens design for flattening a through-focus curve" (California, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,044, issued on June 3, was assigned to Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Inc. (Jacksonville, Fla.).

"Optical lens design for flattening a through-focus curve" was invented by Xin Wei (Irvine, Calif.), Philippe F. Jubin (Jacksonville, Fla.), Derek Nankivil (Jacksonville, Fla.), Minghan Chen (Jacksonville, Fla.) and Gregory Williby (Jacksonville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and/or methods for forming an ophthalmic lens. An example method may comprise a step of determining a power profile based on a power profile function defined by a base optical power, an amount of spherical aberration at a radial dista...