ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,674, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Tangible Science Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Contact lens with a hydrophilic layer" was invented by Karen L. Havenstrite (Saratoga, Calif.), Victor Wayne McCray (San Jose, Calif.), Brandon McNary Felkins (Half Moon Bay, Calif.), Douglas Michael Ackermann (San Francisco), Garrett Cale Smith (San Francisco), Paul A. Cook (Palo Alto, Calif.), Evan S. Luxon (San Francisco) and Andrew A. McGibbon (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the technology relate to a contact lens having a core that is covalently coated by a hydrogel layer, and to methods of making such a lens. In o...