ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,046, issued on June 3, was assigned to NTHALMIC HOLDING PTY LTD (Sydney), BRIGHTEN OPTIX CORP LTD. (Taipei, Taiwan) and SHANGHAI ISPARX MEDICAL Co. LTD (Shanghai).

"Spectacle lenses with auxiliary optical elements" was invented by Ravi Chandra Bakaraju (Sydney) and Klaus Ehrmann (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to devices and/or systems of modifying the incoming light through spectacle lenses that utilise at least one auxiliary or regional optical element, to provide extension or elongation of the depth of focus for a myopic eye. The disclosure relates to methods of correcting myopia and contro...