US Patent Issued to Nthalmic Holding on Dec. 16 for "Optical films with non-refractive opaque features to transform single vision ophthalmic lenses into myopia management ophthalmic lenses" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,588, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Nthalmic Holding Pty Ltd (Sydney).

"Optical films with non-refractive opaque features to transform single vision ophthalmic lenses into myopia management ophthalmic lenses" was invented by Ravi Chandra Bakaraju (Sydney), Klaus Ehrmann (Sydney) and Darrin Falk (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to means of managing eye-length disorders, like myopia. The invention includes an apparatus and methods for the prescription, selection, supply and fitting of permanent or impermanent optical films used in conjunction with standard single vision spectacles, wherein the a...