SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mentor Corporation (NYSE:MNT) announced today that at its reconvened annual meeting of shareholders held on October 1, 2007, the shareholders approved an amendment to Mentor’s Restated Articles of Incorporation to increase the total number of shares of authorized capital stock and to provide for the issuance of preferred stock in one or more series. The effect of this amendment is to increase the number of authorized shares of the Company’s capital stock to 175,000,000 shares, consisting of 150,000,000 shares of common stock, $0.10 par value per share, and 25,000,000 shares of preferred stock, $0.01 par value per share.
