ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,475, issued on May 20, was assigned to OneFocus Vision Inc. (Fernandina Beach, Fla.).
"Fluidic module for accommodating soft contact lens" was invented by Steven B. Waite (Fernandina Beach, Fla.), Amitava Gupta (Fernandina Beach, Fla.), Urban Schnell (Liebefeld-Bern, Switzerland), Jean-Christophe Roulet (Liebefeld-Bern, Switzerland), Michel Saint-Ghislain (Liebefeld-Bern, Switzerland) and Stefan Troller (Liebefeld-Bern, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A meniscus shaped lens module comprises one or more structures that decrease an amount of pressure or force to move one or more surfaces of the lens module and increase a sep...