US Patent Issued to SightGlass Vision on Nov. 11 for "Ophthalmic lenses with light scattering for treating myopia" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,175, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SightGlass Vision Inc. (Dallas).

"Ophthalmic lenses with light scattering for treating myopia" was invented by Peter Hones (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Thomas W. Chalberg Jr. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ophthalmic lens that includes a lens material having two opposing curved surfaces, the curved surfaces defining a lens axis; and a light scattering region surrounding a clear aperture. The clear aperture and the light scattering region are substantially centered on the lens axis, and the light scattering region has a plurality of spaced apart scattering centers (e.g., on a ...