MIAMI, Oct. 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovative Eyewear, Inc. ("Innovative Eyewear" or "the Company") (NASDAQ: LUCY; LUCYW), the developer of smart eyewear under the Lucyd®, Nautica®, Eddie Bauer® and Reebok® brands, received on October 23^rd, a notice of allowance for its utility patent application U.S. Patent Application No. 17/104,849, entitled "Wireless Smartglasses with Quick Connect Front Frames". After paying the required issue fee, the Company anticipates that a patent will issue in due course. The patent is directed to smartglasses that pair or connect with other mobile devices and have removable front frames connected with a quick-disconnect hinge, which allows end users to customize their glasses after purchase with a variety of lens types and frontplate styles.

"User-interchangeable parts are a longstanding feature of popular consumer goods, and the value of this in eyewear is even greater than most products," said Harrison Gross, CEO of Innovative Eyewear. "This is due to the variety of lens functionalities sought by many consumers, such as sunglasses, reading glasses and all-day wear prescription lenses; not to mention the preference for some to have a variety of glasses for fashion purposes. Interchangeable hinges are a feature we have developed for future Lucyd eyewear products, to enable easier and more affordable customization, and less electronic waste, and this new patent protection will help us secure this feature for the smart eyewear market."

Innovative Eyewear has yet to announce a product with this feature. The Company believes that with the success of a separate interchangeable front technology seen in other product lines, modular eyewear represents a new category of products that will also benefit from the addition of Lucyd smart features.

About Innovative Eyewear, Inc.

Innovative Eyewear is a developer of cutting-edge ChatGPT enabled smart eyewear, under the Lucyd®, Nautica®, Eddie Bauer® and Reebok® brands. True to our mission to Upgrade Your Eyewear®, our Bluetooth audio glasses allow users to stay safely and ergonomically connected to their digital lives and are offered in hundreds of frame and lens combinations to meet the needs of the optical market. To learn more and explore our continuously evolving collection of smart eyewear, please visit www.lucyd.co.

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