ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,599, issued on May 13, was assigned to Rodenstock GmbH (Munich).

"Method and apparatus optimizing spectacle lenses for wearers of implanted intraocular lenses" was invented by Stephan Trumm (Munich), Wolfgang Becken (Neuried, Germany), Adam Muschielok (Munich), Anne Seidemann (Munich), Helmut Altheimer (Baisweil-Lauchdorf, Germany) and Gregor Esser (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optimizing a spectacle lens for a wearer of implanted intraocular lenses. The method includes providing individual refraction data on the at least one eye of the spectacle wearer; defining an individual eye model in which at least a shape and/or power...