US Patent Issued to OPTOTUNE SWITZERLAND on Dec. 16 for "Rapid prototyping of optical components, particularly lenses, for producing customized optical surface shapes" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,791, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to OPTOTUNE SWITZERLAND AG (Dietikon, Switzerland).

"Rapid prototyping of optical components, particularly lenses, for producing customized optical surface shapes" was invented by Manuel Aschwanden (Allenwinden, Switzerland), David Andreas Niederer (Kuttigen, Switzerland), Roman Patscheider (Winterthur, Switzerland), Michael Zihlmann (Dietikon, Switzerland), Christopher Laning (Windisch, Switzerland) and Marta Vidiella Del Blanco (Dietikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for producing at least one optical component (1), comprising the steps of:...