ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,212, issued on April 22, was assigned to Oakley Inc. (Foothill Ranch, Calif.).

"Eyewear with chroma enhancement" was invented by Brock Scott McCabe (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), Ryan Saylor (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Carlos D. Reyes (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a lens including a lens body and an optical filter configured to attenuate visible light in a plurality of spectral bands. Each of the plurality of spectral bands can include an absorptance peak with a spectral bandwidth, a maximum absorptance, and an integrated absorptance peak area within the spectral bandwidth. An attenu...