US Patent Issued to Transitions Optical on Jan. 20 for "System for marking a coated ophthalmic lens" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,262, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Transitions Optical Ltd. (Tuam, Ireland).

"System for marking a coated ophthalmic lens" was invented by William D. Carpenter (Galway, Ireland) and Forrest R. Blackburn (Monroeville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for marking a coated optical article (10) having at least one first mark (18) on a surface of a substrate (20) of the coated optical article (10) includes at least one mark (18) identification device having at least one electromagnetic radiation source (111) configured to irradiate at least a portion of the surface of the substrate (20) having the at least one first mark (...