Patent 7757629 was granted and assigned to Transitions Optical on July, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Methods and apparatus for coating optical articles, such as optical lenses, are provided. In one aspect, an optical article is placed in a holder and a sheet of coating material is discharged from a nozzle, such as from a fan coater nozzle, onto the optical article to form a coating on the optical article.