Patents Examined by Jordan M. Schwartz
  • Patent number: 11768378
    Abstract: A plano-concave optical layer is fabricated based on an optical-mechanical fit profile. A concave-side of the plano-concave optical layer and a base curvature provide an optical power that matches the optical power from prescription lenses of eyeglasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Robin Sharma, Mohamed Tarek El-Haddad, Ruobing Qian, Byron Taylor
  • Patent number: 11624937
    Abstract: A contact lens configured to decrease dark adaptation comprises one or more LEDs and directs light from the LED away from the fovea and toward the parafovea or perifoveal regions of the retain. In some embodiments, soft contact lens embedded with one or more arrays of microLEDs and electronics operating the LEDs is configured to be worn at night in order to inhibit dark adaptation and reduce oxygen consumption by the rods. The contact lens may be made of a single layer of a contact lens material or multiple layers sandwiching a flexible transparent plastic layer comprising the electronics and the LED arrays. The contact lens may be made of a hydrophilic hydrogel material that is biocompatible to the human cornea, or a silicone hydrogel material. The contact lens may be spherical and may provide refractive correction to the eye of the wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: ACUCELA INC.
    Inventors: Amitava Gupta, Ryo Kubota
  • Patent number: 11567347
    Abstract: An ophthalmic lens system for reducing the risk of progression of a myopic eye by selectively maintaining, inducing or creating asymmetry of the peripheral retinal profile for the eye. A method for reducing the risk of progression of myopia comprising determining the magnitude of asymmetry of the on-axis/off-axis refractive error profile or eye length profile of the eye and providing an ophthalmic lens system that corrects for and provides acceptable on-axis vision and simultaneously controls the position of the off-axis refractive error profile or eye length profile such that resultant profile of the eye is asymmetric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Brien Holden Vision Institute Limited
    Inventors: Padmaja Sankaridurg, Thomas John Naduvilath, Klaus Ehrmann, Fabian Conrad
  • Patent number: 11561413
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a corresponding computer program product for calculating (optimizing) and producing a spectacle lens with the aid of a semi-personalized eye model. In one approach, the method includes providing personalized refraction data of at least one eye of the spectacles wearer; establishing a personalized eye model in which at least the parameters: shape of an anterior corneal surface of a model eye; a cornea-lens distance; parameters of the lens of the model eye; and lens-retina distance are established using personalized measured values for the eye of the spectacles wearer, and/or using standard values, and/or using the provided personalized refraction data, such that the model eye has the provided personalized refraction data, wherein at least the establishment of the lens-retina distance takes place via calculation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Trumm, Wolfgang Becken, Helmut Altheimer, Adam Muschielok, Yohann Bénard, Gregor Esser, Werner Mueller
  • Patent number: 11561373
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens; a second lens having positive refractive power; a third lens; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; and a sixth lens, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side with spaces in between each of the lenses. The second lens is formed in a shape of a meniscus lens near an optical axis thereof. The third lens has at least one aspheric surface. The fourth lens has at least one aspheric surface. The fifth lens is formed in a shape so that a surface thereof on the object side is convex toward the object side near an optical axis thereof. The sixth lens has two aspheric surfaces and the surface on the image plane side is convex toward the image plane side near an optical axis thereof. The second lens has a specific Abbe's number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: TOKYO VISIONARY OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoji Kubota, Kenichi Kubota, Hitoshi Hirano, Hisao Fukaya
  • Patent number: 11559199
    Abstract: A visual stimulus for a set of contrast cards is provided which comprises a hollow outer circle, opposing and identical first and second arc segment within the outer circle which are symmetrical about the vertical diameter of the outer circle, a first filled-in circle and a second filled-in circle being identical in diameter to the first filled-in circle, each residing on opposite ends of the horizontal diameter of the outer circle and each being equidistant from the center of the outer circle, a filled-in center element having a rotational center on the center of the outer circle, the center element being symmetrical about both the horizontal and vertical diameter of the outer circle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: New England College of Optometry
    Inventors: Dale Luisa Mayer, Barry S. Kran
  • Patent number: 11543682
    Abstract: A method for evaluating an ophthalmic lens for a given wearer according to a visual performance parameter includes providing wearer's data for the given wearer. The method further includes providing a visual performance parameter tolerance range for the wearer. The method further includes providing an ophthalmic lens to be evaluated, the ophthalmic lens being characterized by opto-geometrical features. The method further includes computing a value of the visual performance parameter for the lens to be evaluated on the basis of a model. The method further includes evaluating the ophthalmic lens by comparing the computed value of the visual performance parameter with the visual performance parameter tolerance range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Pierre Bercher, Jean-Pierre Chauveau, Gilles Le Saux, Sebastien Fricker, Sebastien Maurice
  • Patent number: 11543681
    Abstract: Eyeglasses are disclosed that include eyeglass frames and a pair of ophthalmic lenses mounted in the frames. The lenses include a dot pattern distributed across each lens, the dot pattern including an array of dots spaced apart by a distance of 1 mm or less, each dot having a maximum dimension of 0.3 mm or less, the dot pattern including a clear aperture free of dots having a maximum dimension of more than 1 mm, the clear aperture being aligned with a viewing axis of a wearer of the pair of eyeglasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: University of Washington
    Inventors: Jay Neitz, James Kuchenbecker, Maureen Neitz
  • Patent number: 11504000
    Abstract: A modular, headset for performing ophthalmic tests on a patient comprises a removable optical module that can be replaced based on ophthalmic testing need. A miniaturized fundus camera is provided and can be movably mounted within the headset, including to the optical module. The fundus camera position can be automatically adjusted to align the camera with a headset wearer's eye. Software controls image capture and captured images are combined assembled and combined to provide a wide field retinal image. The optical module can have replaceable sub-components allowing configuration for different ophthalmic tests, such as visual field testing and optical coherence tomography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: XENON-VR, INC.
    Inventors: Zeshan Ali Khan, Steve Susanibar
  • Patent number: 11487083
    Abstract: Provided is a camera optical lens including, sequentially from an object side to an image side, first to fifth lenses. The camera optical lens satisfies: ?8.00?(f1+f3+f5)/f??6.00; 1.00?(R7+R8)/(R7?R8)?3.00; R5/d5??15.00; 10.00?d7/d8?13.02; and 0.80?f4/f?1.50, where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens; f1, f3, f4 and f5 denote focal lengths of the first, third, fourth and fifth lenses, respectively; R5 denotes a curvature radius of an object side surface of the third lens; R7 and R8 denote curvature radiuses of object side and image side surfaces of the fourth lens, respectively; d5 and d7 denote on-axis thicknesses of the third and fourth lenses, respectively; and d8 denotes an on-axis distance from the image side surface of the fourth lens to an object side surface of the fifth lens. The camera optical lens can achieve high optical performance while satisfying design requirements for ultra-thin, wide-angle lenses having large apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhanli Guo, Wen Sun
  • Patent number: 11480813
    Abstract: An apparatus to treat refractive error of the eye comprises one or more optics configured to project stimuli comprising out of focus images onto the peripheral retina outside the macula. While the stimuli can be configured in many ways, in some embodiments the stimuli are arranged to decrease interference with central vison such as macular vision. The stimuli can be out of focus images may comprise an amount of defocus within a range from about 3 Diopters (“D”) to about 6 D. In some embodiments, the brightness of the stimuli is greater than a brightness of background illumination by an appropriate amount such as at least 3 times the background brightness. In some embodiments, each of a plurality of stimuli comprises a spatial frequency distribution with an amplitude profile having spatial frequencies within a range from about range of 1×10?1 to 2.5×101 cycles per degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: ACUCELA INC.
    Inventors: Ryo Kubota, Nabin Joshi, Arkady Selenow, Steven Ali, Stefan Bauer, Jean-Noël Fehr, Moritz Haeberli, Patrizia Weber, Julien Sauvet, Amitava Gupta
  • Patent number: 11478142
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems for performing an ophthalmic diagnostic test are disclosed. In one aspect, a head-wearable device for administering an ophthalmic test to a subject can comprise a head-wearable frame for mounting the device onto the subject's head, and a light seal configured for coupling to the frame so as to isolate at least one eye of the subject from ambient light when the device is worn by the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: MACULOGIX, INC.
    Inventors: Gregory R. Jackson, David E. Beecher, David E. Orr, Frank Jones, Nathan Smith
  • Patent number: 11478143
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems for performing an ophthalmic diagnostic test are disclosed. In one aspect, a head-wearable device for administering an ophthalmic test to a subject can comprise a head-wearable frame for mounting the device onto the subject's head, and a light seal configured for coupling to the frame so as to isolate at least one eye of the subject from ambient light when the device is worn by the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: MACULOGIX, INC.
    Inventors: Gregory R. Jackson, David E. Beecher, David E. Orr, Frank Jones, Nathan Smith
  • Patent number: 11474378
    Abstract: Provided is a test method performed using a lens which comes into contact with a human body during use, the test method including the steps of: providing a membrane member including a membrane swellable upon absorbing water and a supporting base having an annular shape to support an outer periphery of the membrane; allowing cells to adhere on the membrane of the membrane member; and bringing the membrane to which the cells are adhered into close contact with the surface of the lens, by immersing the membrane member and the lens into a liquid and deforming the membrane in a swollen state along the surface of the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seitaro Taki, Yasuhiko Shinoda, Hiroyuki Nakagawa, Rie Kimura
  • Patent number: 11471044
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems for performing an ophthalmic diagnostic test are disclosed. In one aspect, a head-wearable device for administering an ophthalmic test to a subject can comprise a head-wearable frame for mounting the device onto the subject's head, and a light seal configured for coupling to the frame so as to isolate at least one eye of the subject from ambient light when the device is worn by the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: MACULOGIX, INC.
    Inventors: Gregory R. Jackson, David E. Beecher, David E. Orr, Frank Jones, Nathan Smith
  • Patent number: 11471994
    Abstract: A lens blocker includes a drive cam having a blocker arm guide groove; a blocker arm coupled to the drive cam to be movable up and down along the drive cam or to be rotatable about the drive cam, and having a blocker arm guide formed at one end thereof, wherein the blocker arm guide is inserted into the blocker arm guide groove of the drive cam and moves along the blocker arm guide groove; a leap block mount (50), to which a leap block to be attached to a blank lens is mounted and which is coupled to the blocker arm; a blocker arm base moving the blocker arm up and down along the drive cam; and a lens mount onto which the blank lens, is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: HUVITZ CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Byung Woo Kyon
  • Patent number: 11474379
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for a diagnostic lens to determine decentration from the optical axis or pupil center in the manufacture of a prescription ophthalmic lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Inventors: Brett J Cochran, Sean A. Masler, William V. Masler, Troy A. Miller
  • Patent number: 11460716
    Abstract: A method for producing a spectacle lens 2 including a base portion 2 that is made of a resin material and includes a convex object-side face and a concave eyeball-side face, and an optical element 12 that is made of a material different from the material for forming the base portion and is embedded in the base portion, is described. The method includes: arranging an optical element in a cavity 28 of a mold including a first mold part 20 and a second mold part 24 that can be opened and closed; introducing a resin material for forming a base portion of the spectacle lens into the cavity of the mold; obtaining the spectacle lens by curing the resin material that is a resin for forming the base portion; disassembling the mold; and detaching the spectacle lens from the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventor: Yuji Hoshi
  • Patent number: 11460717
    Abstract: A set of ophthalmic lenses is described where each ophthalmic lens has at a point of optical reference a maximum power and meets an optical performance criterion in standard wearing conditions, wherein the range of maximum powers of the set of ophthalmic lenses is greater than or equal to 10 D, and all the ophthalmic lenses of the set of ophthalmic lenses have been manufactured from a set of semi-finished lens blank, each semi-finished lens blank having the same base curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Melanie Heslouis, Carlos Rego, Cyril Guilloux
  • Patent number: 11457805
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems for performing an ophthalmic diagnostic test are disclosed. In one aspect, a head-wearable device for administering an ophthalmic test to a subject can comprise a head-wearable frame for mounting the device onto the subject's head, and a light seal configured for coupling to the frame so as to isolate at least one eye of the subject from ambient light when the device is worn by the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: MACULOGIX, INC.
    Inventors: Gregory R. Jackson, David E. Beecher, David E. Orr, Frank Jones, Nathan Smith