Patents by Inventor Walter Zanette
Walter Zanette 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).
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Patent number: 9498325Abstract: Systems and methods for designing and implanting a customized intra-ocular lens (IOL) is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes an eye analysis module that analyzes a patient's eye and generates biometric information relating to the eye. The system also includes eye modeling and optimization modules to generate an optimized IOL model based upon the biometric information and other inputted parameters representative of patient preferences. The system further includes a manufacturing module configured manufacture the customized IOL based on the optimized IOL model. In addition, the system can include an intra-operative real time analyzer configured to measure and display topography and aberrometry information related to a patient's eye for assisting in proper implantation of the IOL.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2016Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: WaveTec Vision Systems, Inc.Inventors: Stefano Salvati, Cesare Tanassi, Gianluigi Meneghini, Renato Frison, Walter Zanette
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Publication number: 20160184093Abstract: Systems and methods for designing and implanting a customized intra-ocular lens (IOL) is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes an eye analysis module that analyzes a patient's eye and generates biometric information relating to the eye. The system also includes eye modeling and optimization modules to generate an optimized IOL model based upon the biometric information and other inputted parameters representative of patient preferences. The system further includes a manufacturing module configured manufacture the customized IOL based on the optimized IOL model. In addition, the system can include an intra-operative real time analyzer configured to measure and display topography and aberrometry information related to a patient's eye for assisting in proper implantation of the IOL.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2016Publication date: June 30, 2016Inventors: Stefano Salvati, Cesare Tanassi, Gianluigi Meneghini, Renato Frison, Walter Zanette
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Patent number: 9339179Abstract: A corneal confocal microscope characterized by a particular illumination system.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2011Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Sifi Medtech S.R.L.Inventors: Renato Frison, Cesare Tanassi, Walter Zanette
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Patent number: 9301677Abstract: Systems and methods for designing and implanting a customized intra-ocular lens (IOL) is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes an eye analysis module that analyzes a patient's eye and generates biometric information relating to the eye. The system also includes eye modeling and optimization modules to generate an optimized IOL model based upon the biometric information and other inputted parameters representative of patient preferences. The system further includes a manufacturing module configured manufacture the customized IOL based on the optimized IOL model. In addition, the system can include an intra-operative real time analyzer configured to measure and display topography and aberrometry information related to a patient's eye for assisting in proper implantation of the IOL.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: WaveTec Vision Systems, Inc.Inventors: Stefano Salvati, Cesare Tanassi, Gianluigi Meneghini, Renato Frison, Walter Zanette
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Publication number: 20150092159Abstract: Systems and methods for designing and implanting a customized intra-ocular lens (IOL) is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes an eye analysis module that analyzes a patient's eye and generates biometric information relating to the eye. The system also includes eye modeling and optimization modules to generate an optimized IOL model based upon the biometric information and other inputted parameters representative of patient preferences. The system further includes a manufacturing module configured manufacture the customized IOL based on the optimized IOL model. In addition, the system can include an intra-operative real time analyzer configured to measure and display topography and aberrometry information related to a patient's eye for assisting in proper implantation of the IOL.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2014Publication date: April 2, 2015Applicant: WAVETEC VISION SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Stefano Salvati, Cesare Tanassi, Gianluigi Meneghini, Renato Frison, Walter Zanette
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Patent number: 8596793Abstract: Described herein is a method for optimization of the conditions of execution of the vision contrast test and the corresponding system with which to implement said method so as to be able to guarantee optimal conditions throughout the test session even when not it is not possible to respect the standards. Furthermore, the method comprises a self-calibration procedure, which definitively eliminates the operations of calibration of the system by specialized centers.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2011Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: SIFI MedTech SrlInventors: Cesare Tanassi, Gianluigi Meneghini, Walter Zanette
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Patent number: 8596790Abstract: Systems and methods for designing and implanting a customized intra-ocular lens (IOL) is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes an eye analysis module that analyzes a patient's eye and generates biometric information relating to the eye. The system also includes eye modeling and optimization modules to generate an optimized IOL model based upon the biometric information and other inputted parameters representative of patient preferences. The system further includes a manufacturing module configured manufacture the customized IOL based on the optimized IOL model. In addition, the system can include an intra-operative real time analyzer configured to measure and display topography and aberrometry information related to a patient's eye for assisting in proper implantation of the IOL.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2012Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: SIFI MedTech SrlInventors: Stefano Salvati, Cesare Tanassi, Gianluigi Meneghini, Renato Frison, Walter Zanette
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Publication number: 20130293841Abstract: A corneal confocal microscope characterized by a particular illumination system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2011Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: SIFI MEDTECH S.R.L.Inventors: Renato Frison, Cesare Tanassi, Walter Zanette
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Publication number: 20120320337Abstract: Systems and methods for designing and implanting a customized intra-ocular lens (IOL) is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes an eye analysis module that analyzes a patient's eye and generates biometric information relating to the eye. The system also includes eye modeling and optimization modules to generate an optimized IOL model based upon the biometric information and other inputted parameters representative of patient preferences. The system further includes a manufacturing module configured manufacture the customized IOL based on the optimized IOL model. In addition, the system can include an intra-operative real time analyzer configured to measure and display topography and aberrometry information related to a patient's eye for assisting in proper implantation of the IOL.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2012Publication date: December 20, 2012Inventors: Stefano SALVATI, Cesare TANASSI, Gianluigi MENEGHINI, Renato FRISON, Walter ZANETTE
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Patent number: 8216305Abstract: Systems and methods for designing and implanting a customized intra-ocular lens (IOL) is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes an eye analysis module that analyzes a patient's eye and generates biometric information relating to the eye. The system also includes eye modeling and optimization modules to generate an optimized IOL model based upon the biometric information and other inputted parameters representative of patient preferences. The system further includes a manufacturing module configured manufacture the customized IOL based on the optimized IOL model. In addition, the system can include an intra-operative real time analyzer configured to measure and display topography and aberrometry information related to a patient's eye for assisting in proper implantation of the IOL.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2010Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Inventors: Stefano Salvati, Cesare Tanassi, Gianluigi Meneghini, Renato Frison, Walter Zanette
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Patent number: 8075134Abstract: The following is a method to represent images for dissociative stereoscopic vision, which allows, by means of some simple operations on stereoscopic images, to develop a device comprising a processing card and LCD shuttering goggles, which together with a computer equipped with a graphic card with LVDS output and any image display device, enable to perform visual acuity tests on patients.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2008Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Inventors: Cesare Tanassi, Walter Zanette, Irene Mogentale, Gianluigi Meneghini
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Publication number: 20110187997Abstract: Described herein is a method for optimization of the conditions of execution of the vision contrast test and the corresponding system with which to implement said method so as to be able to guarantee optimal conditions throughout the test session even when not it is not possible to respect the standards. Furthermore, the method comprises a self-calibration procedure, which definitively eliminates the operations of calibration of the system by specialized centres.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2011Publication date: August 4, 2011Inventors: Cesare TANASSI, Gianluigi MENEGHINI, Walter ZANETTE
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Patent number: 7942529Abstract: Described herein is a method for optimization of the conditions of execution of the vision contrast test and the corresponding system with which to implement said method so as to be able to guarantee optimal conditions throughout the test session even when not it is not possible to respect the standards. Furthermore, the method comprises a self-calibration procedure, which definitively eliminates the operations of calibration of the system by specialized centers.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2008Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: SIFI Diagnostic SpAInventors: Cesare Tanassi, Gianluigi Meneghini, Walter Zanette
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Publication number: 20110087324Abstract: Systems and methods for designing and implanting a customized intra-ocular lens (IOL) is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes an eye analysis module that analyzes a patient's eye and generates biometric information relating to the eye. The system also includes eye modeling and optimization modules to generate an optimized IOL model based upon the biometric information and other inputted parameters representative of patient preferences. The system further includes a manufacturing module configured manufacture the customized IOL based on the optimized IOL model. In addition, the system can include an intra-operative real time analyzer configured to measure and display topography and aberrometry information related to a patient's eye for assisting in proper implantation of the IOL.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2010Publication date: April 14, 2011Applicant: SIFI DIAGNOSTIC S.P.A.Inventors: Stefano SALVATI, Cesare TANASSI, Gianluigi MENEGHINI, Renato FRISON, Walter ZANETTE
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Patent number: 7878655Abstract: Systems and methods for designing and implanting a customized intra-ocular lens (IOL) is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes an eye analysis module that analyzes a patient's eye and generates biometric information relating to the eye. The system also includes eye modeling and optimization modules to generate an optimized IOL model based upon the biometric information and other inputted parameters representative of patient preferences. The system further includes a manufacturing module configured manufacture the customized IOL based on the optimized IOL model. In addition, the system can include an intra-operative real time analyzer configured to measure and display topography and aberrometry information related to a patient's eye for assisting in proper implantation of the IOL.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2009Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Sifi Diagnostic SpAInventors: Stefano Salvati, Cesare Tanassi, Gianluigi Meneghini, Renato Frison, Walter Zanette
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Publication number: 20100165293Abstract: An apparatus for imaging an eye can include a pair of Scheimpflug imaging systems. Each Scheimpflug imaging system can have respective video cameras and optics configured to direct light reflected from an eye into the video cameras. The apparatus can also have a movable platform configured to move the pair of Scheimpflug imaging systems in accordance with eye movement detected by an eye tracking imaging system. In some embodiments, the Scheimpflug imaging systems can rotate 90 degrees about an optical axis of an eye being examined.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2010Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: SIFI DIAGNOSTIC SPAInventors: Cesare TANASSI, Walter ZANETTE, Irene MOGENTALE, Gianluigi MENEGHINI
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Publication number: 20100134760Abstract: Systems and methods for designing and implanting a customized intra-ocular lens (IOL) is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes an eye analysis module that analyzes a patient's eye and generates biometric information relating to the eye. The system also includes eye modeling and optimization modules to generate an optimized IOL model based upon the biometric information and other inputted parameters representative of patient preferences. The system further includes a manufacturing module configured manufacture the customized IOL based on the optimized IOL model. In addition, the system can include an intra-operative real time analyzer configured to measure and display topography and aberrometry information related to a patient's eye for assisting in proper implantation of the IOL.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2009Publication date: June 3, 2010Inventors: Stefano Salvati, Cesare TANASSI, Gianluigi MENEGHINI, Renato FRISON, Walter ZANETTE
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Patent number: 7712899Abstract: An apparatus for imaging an eye can include a pair of Scheimpflug imaging systems. Each Scheimpflug imaging system can have respective video cameras and optics configured to direct light reflected from an eye into the video cameras. The apparatus can also have a movable platform configured to move the pair of Scheimpflug imaging systems in accordance with eye movement detected by an eye tracking imaging system. In some embodiments, the Scheimpflug imaging systems can rotate 90 degrees about an optical axis of an eye being examined.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2008Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: SIFI Diagnostic SpAInventors: Cesare Tanassi, Walter Zanette, Irene Mogentale, Gianluigi Meneghini
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Publication number: 20100103271Abstract: Described herein is a method for optimization of the conditions of execution of the vision contrast test and the corresponding system with which to implement said method so as to be able to guarantee optimal conditions throughout the test session even when not it is not possible to respect the standards. Furthermore, the method comprises a self-calibration procedure, which definitively eliminates the operations of calibration of the system by specialized centres.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2008Publication date: April 29, 2010Applicant: SIFI DIAGNOSTIC SPAInventors: Cesare Tanassi, Gianluigi Meneghini, Walter Zanette
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Publication number: 20100053551Abstract: The following is a method to represent images for dissociative stereoscopic vision, which allows, by means of some simple operations on stereoscopic images, to develop a device comprising a processing card and LCD shuttering goggles, which together with a computer equipped with a graphic card with LVDS output and any image display device, enable to perform visual acuity tests on patients.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2008Publication date: March 4, 2010Inventors: Cesare Tanassi, Walter Zanette, Irene Mogentale, Gianluigi Meneghini