ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,019, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Optotune Switzerland AG (Dietikon, Switzerland).

"Method for manufacturing a customized optical element to adjust an optical property of an optical component" was invented by Manuel Aschwanden (Allenwinden, Switzerland) and David Andreas Niederer (Kuttigen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a customized optical element to adjust an optical property of an optical component, such as goggles, wherein the method comprises the steps of receiving customer data indicative of a visual defect a person and/or a desired visual correction of the ...