US Patent Issued to PEGAVISION on Aug. 5 for "Silicone hydrogel composition and silicone hydrogel lens" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,343, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to PEGAVISION Corp. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Silicone hydrogel composition and silicone hydrogel lens" was invented by Yu-Chin Lai (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Ting-Chun Kuan (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Di-Yao Hsu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Fang-Yu Tsai (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Min-Tzung Yeh (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A silicone hydrogel composition includes a first hydrophilic monomer, a siloxane compound, a first crosslinking monomer, a second hydrophilic monomer, and a second crosslinking monomer. The first hydrophilic monomer and the siloxane compound have an acrylate group or an acrylamide group and may also...