ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,265, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TOKUYAMA Corp. (Shunan, Japan).
"Coating method" was invented by Toshimitsu Hiraren (Tsukuba, Japan), Yoshihiro Asahara (Hikari, Japan) and Takashi Tamukai (Kamisu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a coating method including: a step of supplying a coating agent to a surface of a lens base material; a spreading step of spreading the coating agent supplied to the surface by rotation of the lens base material; a first removal step of removing at least a part of a liquid pool of the coating agent generated on a peripheral edge portion and/or a side surface portion o...