ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,474, issued on May 27, was assigned to Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Inc. (Jacksonville, Fla.).
"Multi-material lens package" was invented by William Gooch (Jacksonville, Fla.), Scott F. Ansell (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.), Gerard Sheehan (Limerick, Ireland) and Timothy Burkill (Limerick, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is described a contact lens package containing a bowl for holding a contact lens and a flange around the bowl which may be made from a different polymer material than the bowl. The packages comprise at least one interface tab with at least one slot so that the second polymer material forming the flange can e...