US Patent Issued to Journey1 on June 24 for "Astigmatism correcting contact lenses having smooth edges, spheric and/or aspheric geometrical design" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,527, issued on June 24, was assigned to Journey1 Inc (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Astigmatism correcting contact lenses having smooth edges, spheric and/or aspheric geometrical design" was invented by Yair Alster (Tel Aviv, Israel), Eugene De Juan Jr. (San Francisco), Omer Rafaeli (Rishpon, Israel), Barak Azmon (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Iris Szwarcfiter Brand (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides an axisymmetric soft contact lens having aspheric and/or spheric geometrical design for use in correcting an ocular refractive error of an eye."

The patent was filed on Oct. 7, 2024, under Application No. 1...