US Patent Issued to Johnson & Johnson Vision Care on Nov. 25 for "Multifocal contact lens displaying improved vision attributes" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,173, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Inc. (Jacksonville, Fla.).

"Multifocal contact lens displaying improved vision attributes" was invented by Shivkumar Mahadevan (Jacksonville, Fla.), Dawn D. Wright (St. Augustine, Fla.), Ronald J. Clark (Jacksonville, Fla.), Thomas R. Karkkainen (Orange Park, Fla.) and Derek Nankivil (Jacksonville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are multifocal contact lenses that contain high energy visible (HEV) light absorbing compounds and their use for improving one or more vision attributes."

The patent was filed on Nov. 30, 2022, under Application No. 18/060,1...