Patent 7686449 was granted and assigned to Oakley, Inc. on March, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Disclosed is an eyewear retention system. In some embodiments, the eyewear retention system retains a lens by using at least one padding structure located between the lens and the lens holder. In some embodiments, the lens can be press fit into the frame and retained by the resulting interference fit. The lens holder, such as an orbital, can fully or partially surround the lens.