Patents by Inventor LAUREN DeVITA GERARDI

LAUREN DeVITA GERARDI has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9326846
    Abstract: An accommodating intraocular lens includes an optic and four haptics. the optic includes an outer wall, a solid posterior optic, an anterior fluid chamber, an anterior membrane and a fluid reservoir within the outer wall surrounding the anterior fluid chamber and the solid posterior optics. The four haptics are attached to the outer wall at four attachment points. Each of the four haptics includes an arc member extending between successive attachment points and contacting the outer wall only at the attachment points. Each of the arc members is configured to compress laterally under accommodative forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: NOVARTIS AG
    Inventors: Lauren Devita Gerardi, Kevin M. Lewellen
  • Publication number: 20150173892
    Abstract: An accommodating intraocular lens includes a haptic assembly and a flexible optic. The haptic assembly includes an anterior ring, a posterior ring, anterior spring arms, and posterior spring arms, wherein the anterior spring arms and the posterior spring arms bias the anterior ring and the posterior ring apart from one another. The flexible optic is suspended between the anterior ring and the posterior ring and connected to the haptic assembly by a plurality of support struts. The support struts are adapted to deform the flexible optic upon axial compression of the haptic assembly so that an optical power of the flexible optic is reduced relative to an uncompressed state of the haptic assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: DAVID BORJA, LAUREN DeVITA GERARDI
  • Publication number: 20150173891
    Abstract: An accommodating intraocular lens includes an optic and four haptics. the optic includes an outer wall, a solid posterior optic, an anterior fluid chamber, an anterior membrane and a fluid reservoir within the outer wall surrounding the anterior fluid chamber and the solid posterior optics. The four haptics are attached to the outer wall at four attachment points. Each of the four haptics includes an arc member extending between successive attachment points and contacting the outer wall only at the attachment points. Each of the arc members is configured to compress laterally under accommodative forces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: LAUREN DEVITA GERARDI, KEVIN M. LEWELLEN
  • Publication number: 20140180405
    Abstract: A curvature changing accommodative intraocular lens is provided in which the anterior surface of the intraocular lens undergoes dynamic change in curvature to focus light from distant objects to those nearby. The lens utilizes fluid movement from bladders defined as junctions between haptic elements and lens element or bladders positioned between the haptic elements and lens element periphery to change the curvature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: NOVARTIS AG
    Inventors: JOSEPH I. WEINSCHENK, III, LAUREN DeVITA GERARDI, HARI SUBRAMANIAM
  • Publication number: 20140180410
    Abstract: An accommodative intraocular lens is described that provides monofocal vision at multiple pre-defined focal points during accommodation. The intraocular lens includes a lens element having a series of stacked optics that can be formed utilizing multiple different materials, each of which can have a different stiffness. In an implanted, disaccommodated state, the lens element can have a pre-defined curvature to thus define a first or base focal point of the intraocular lens. Upon accommodation of the patient's eye, the optics can be compressed and/or deformed at differing intervals so as to provide the intraocular lens with three or more distinct focal points. As an alternative, the lens element can include optics formed with multiple sets of haptic elements having varying haptic stiffnesses to vary compression of the optics in order to provide the intraocular lens with multiple focal points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: NOVARTIS AG
    Inventor: LAUREN DeVITA GERARDI