ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,790, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Wavefront Dynamnics Inc. (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Customized manufacture of molds for making wavefront-customized contact lens using a wavefront aberrometer" was invented by Daniel R. Neal (Albuquerque, N.M.), Jeff Kolberg (Laguna Beach, Calif.), Jason Marsack (Houston) and Raymond Alan Applegate (Kingwood, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for manufacturing a wavefront-customized contact lens. The systems include: (1) an optical instrument for measuring ocular imperfections of a patient's eye; (2) a computer for designing a mold and pin design used for manufacturing a wavef...