Patents by Inventor Yvette Appoline Joséphine Houbrechts

Yvette Appoline Joséphine Houbrechts 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).

  • Intraocular lens
    Patent number: 8636796
    Abstract: An intraocular lens (1) including an anterior surface (4) and a posterior surface (5) and having a substantially antero-posterior optical axis (6). In this lens, one of these anterior and posterior surfaces includes a first diffractive profile (9) forming at least one first diffractive focal point (11) of order +1 on said optical axis, and a second diffractive profile (10) forming a second diffractive focal point (12) of order +1 on said optical axis which is distinct from the first diffractive focal point of order +1. At least one portion of said second diffractive profile is superposed to at least one portion of the first diffractive profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Physiol
    Inventors: Yvette Appoline Joséphine Houbrechts, Christophe Robert Marie Armand Pagnoulle, Damien Gatinel
  • INTRAOCULAR LENS.
    Publication number: 20120283825
    Abstract: The invention relates to an intraocular lens (1) including an anterior surface (4) and a posterior surface (5) and having a substantially antero-posterior optical axis (6). In this lens, one of these anterior and posterior surfaces includes a first diffractive profile (9) forming at least one first diffractive focal point (11) of order +1 on said optical axis, and a second diffractive profile (10) forming a second diffractive focal point (12) of order +1 on said optical axis which is distinct from the first diffractive focal point of order +1. At least one portion of said second diffractive profile is superposed to at least one portion of the first diffractive profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: PHYSIOL
    Inventors: Yvette Appoline Joséphine Houbrechts, Christophe Robert Marie Armand Pagnoulle, Damien Gatinel