ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,285, issued on April 8, was assigned to KOCH PAC-SYSTEME GMBH (Pfalzgrafenweiler, Germany).

"Method for producing contact lens packages" was invented by Karl Kappler (Pfalzgrafenweiler, Germany), Juergen Bitzer (Pfalzgrafenweiler, Germany) and Benjamin Doelker (Pfalzgrafenweiler, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The contact lens package comprises an accommodation element having a cup which contains a contact lens fluid and a contact lens, and a cover film which closes the cup. The accommodation element has, at least in a region of the cup, a coating containing silicon oxide or aluminium oxide. The associated method of productio...