US Patent Issued to Johnson & Johnson Vision Care on Sept. 16 for "Contact lens packages and methods of opening" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,615, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Inc. (Jacksonville, Fla.).

"Contact lens packages and methods of opening" was invented by Sam Jonathan Popwell (Jacksonville, Fla.), Scott F. Ansell (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.), Daniel Graham Ward (Bishop's Stortford, Great Britain), Stephen Sams (Bassingbourn, Great Britain), William Stephen Honey (Bath, Great Britain) and Ismail Akram (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to improved contact lens packages. The package may be configured such that upon opening the package by a wearer the packaging solution drains awa...