US Patent Issued to Johnson & Johnson Vision Care on Nov. 4 for "Contact lens package with draining port" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,121, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Inc. (Jacksonville, Fla.).

"Contact lens package with draining port" was invented by Sam Jonathan Popwell (Jacksonville, Fla.), Daniel Graham Ward (Bishop's Stortford, Great Britain), Stephen Sams (Bassingbourn, Great Britain) and Ismail Akram (Bassingbourn, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact lens package includes a base having a proximal end and a distal end, a solution well between the proximal end and the distal end, a contact lens support in the solution well, a top opening between the proximal end and the distal end and over the contact lens ...