ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,031, issued on March 25, was assigned to SCHNEIDER GMBH & Co. KG (Fronhausen, Germany).
"System, method and support for coating eyeglass lenses" was invented by Gunter Schneider (Marburg, Germany) and Markus Fuhr (Erlensee, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An installation, a carrier, and a method for coating eyeglass lenses are provided, wherein a carrier with eyeglass lenses held in a rotatable manner is conveyed in succession in different coating devices or coating lines, in order to coat in an alternating manner opposite sides of the eyeglass lenses and/or to apply different coatings. In particular, the carriers with the ey...