US Patent Issued to SightGlass Vision on Sept. 16 for "Ophthalmic lenses for reducing myopic progression and methods of making the same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,818, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SightGlass Vision Inc. (Dallas).

"Ophthalmic lenses for reducing myopic progression and methods of making the same" was invented by Peter Hones Jr. (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Thomas W. Chalberg Jr. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes providing an ophthalmic lens having a prescribed optical power, the ophthalmic lens having a surface having a base curvature corresponding to the prescribed optical power, and exposing a material at the surface to laser radiation sufficient to locally reshape the material to form a plurality of lenslets on the surface. The lenslets ...