Essilor Signs Global License With High Performance Optics for Blue Light Filtering Spectacle Lens Technology

CHARENTON LE PONT, France—Essilor International announced yesterday that it signed an exclusive, global license agreement with High Performance Optics (HPO), a Roanoke, Va. company that develops technology to protect the human retina from blue light.   According to Essilor, the licensing agreement complements its existing patent and technologies portfolio. The agreement, which is limited to spectacle lenses, will allow Essilor to "continue to focus on products with correction and preventive benefits and to roll out its robust portfolio of patented products around the world," the company said.   Read the article on VMail