Patents by Inventor Ron Rammage

Ron Rammage 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).

  • Publication number: 20230148857
    Abstract: A method for optimizing an ophthalmic treatment, comprising: measuring a patient's eye with an ophthalmic measurement instrument, fabricating a trial correction lens and testing it on the patient's eye, determining a score or success criteria for the trial correction, using the score or success criteria to provide training information to a machine-learning algorithm, and using the machine-learning algorithm to determine an optimal ophthalmic correction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel R. Neal, Xifeng Zhao, Jeff Kolberg, Ron Rammage
  • Publication number: 20230133703
    Abstract: This invention comprises a combined optical wavefront aberrometer and topographer system that is used in conjunction with a contact lens that has a plurality of fiducial marks disposed on the lens. The fiducial marks are located radially inside of the undilated pupil's diameter. The optical imaging capacity of the aberrometer is used to measure and monitor any misalignments of the contact lens's position (XY decentration) and/or rotation. Image analysis algorithms are used to track the positions of the fiducial marks, and, hence, the amount of geometric misalignment of the contact lens can be calculated. The fiducial marks can comprise micro ink spots, or depressions in the surface of the contact lens (e.g., divots, dimples, pits), or other small surface features, including raised bumps, which can help to stabilize motions of the contact lens on the eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Xifeng Xiao, Daniel R. Neal, Jeff Kolberg, Ron Rammage, Phillip Riera, R. James Copland, Matt Haugo
  • Patent number: 9271646
    Abstract: Embodiments of this invention generally relate to systems and methods for wavefront interactive refraction display and more particularly to systems and methods for capturing and displaying eye wavefront interactive refraction data based on the desired refractive state of the patient's eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: AMO WaveFront Sciences, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Neal, Stephen W. Farrer, Larry B. Voss, Thomas D Raymond, Daniel Hamrick, John Dixson, Phillip Riera, Ron Rammage, Richard J. Copland
  • Publication number: 20140268056
    Abstract: Embodiments of this invention generally relate to systems and methods for wavefront interactive refraction display and more particularly to systems and methods for capturing and displaying eye wavefront interactive refraction data based on the desired refractive state of the patient's eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Daniel Neal, Stephen W. Farrer, Larry B. Voss, Thomas D. Raymond, Daniel Hamrick, John Dixson, Phillip Riera, Ron Rammage, Richard J. Copland
  • Patent number: 6607274
    Abstract: A method for computing the visual performance of a human or animal subject based on objective measurements of visual refraction, including higher order aberrations, includes measuring wavefront aberrations of a subject ocular pupil, computing a point-spread-function from the measured pupil aberration, providing a test image, and convolving the test image with the point-spread-function. A simulated image may be produced from the convolution result of the test image with the point-spread-function. One or more specific terms of the point-spread-function may be subtracted therefrom prior to the convolving step to simulate an effect of a correcting means, such as spectacles lenses, contact lenses, or laser surgery. A best correction for a given subject may be determined by adjusting the terms that are subtracted to optimize the resultant image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: WaveFront Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Stantz, Daniel R. Neal, Ron Rammage
  • Publication number: 20020186346
    Abstract: A method for computing the visual performance of a human or animal subject based on objective measurements of visual refraction, including higher order aberrations, includes measuring wavefront aberrations of a subject ocular pupil, computing a point-spread-function from the measured pupil aberration, providing a test image, and convolving the test image with the point-spread-function. A simulated image may be produced from the convolution result of the test image with the point-spread-function. One or more specific terms of the point-spread-function may be subtracted therefrom prior to the convolving step to simulate an effect of a correcting means, such as spectacles lenses, contact lenses, or laser surgery. A best correction for a given subject may be determined by adjusting the terms that are subtracted to optimize the resultant image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2002
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Inventors: Keith Stantz, Daniel R. Neal, Ron Rammage