Specific Viewing Zones Patents (Class 351/159.1)
  • Patent number: 11934043
    Abstract: An ophthalmic lens for myopia control. A first surface of the lens varies across the lens to form a first surface power map. A second surface of the lens varies across the lens to form a second surface power map. Each of the first and second surface power maps comprise a spiral. The spirals formed by the first and second surface power maps twist in opposing directions. Related methods are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: COOPERVISION INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Martin Webber
  • Patent number: 11119338
    Abstract: A soft contact lens has low water content or no water content. The soft contact lens includes: a circular central part positioned at a center of the soft contact lens; an intermediate part positioned at an outer peripheral side of the central part and forming an annular shape having a center coaxial with the central part; and an outer edge part positioned at an outer peripheral side of the intermediate part and forming an annular shape having a center coaxial with the central part. Respective radii of curvature of the central part, the intermediate part, and the outer edge part are different from each other, and a sagittal depth of the soft contact lens is within a range of a sagittal depth in a case where the entire soft contact lens is formed in a range of a radius of curvature ±0.2 mm of the outer edge part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignees: SEED CO., LTD., TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Akira Nakamura, Tsutomu Fukushima, Rumiko Kitagawa, Masataka Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10948744
    Abstract: A lens element worn in front of an eye of a person includes a refraction area having a first refractive power based on a prescription for correcting an abnormal refraction of the eye of the person and a second refractive power different from the first refractive power and a plurality of at least three optical elements, at least one optical element having an optical function of not focusing an image on the retina of the eye so as to slow down the progression of the abnormal refraction of the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Matthieu Guillot, Björn Drobe
  • Patent number: 10598955
    Abstract: The disclosure generally describes methods, systems and products relating to the development and manufacture of scleral contact lenses. A number of dimensions for the scleral lens is generated based on control points and attendant curvature parameters. Any change to one or more of the curve parameters imparts an improved anterior and posterior surface of the scleral lens and associated thickness, while undesired modifications to control points and other curve parameters remain static inasmuch as the sagittal depth component is an input parameter of the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated
    Inventor: Charles H. Creighton
  • Patent number: 10359645
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to therapeutic optical devices configured to provide corneal reshaping for correction of refractive errors of an eye, as well as a peripheral refractive effect on on-axis and/or off-axis light to provide regulation of refractive error development in the eye. Related methods for designing therapeutic optical devices and treatment of an eye with a multifunction therapeutic optical device are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Paragon CRT Company LLC
    Inventors: William E. Meyers, Jerome A. Legerton
  • Patent number: 10098836
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to local therapies for the eye and, more particularly, to shaped controlled-release ocular implant devices, including methods for making and using such devices, for delivery of therapeutic agents to the eye. A molded two-layer ocular implant comprises a therapeutic agent for treatment or prevention of a disorder of the eye. The implant comprises a polymer layer and a silicone adhesive layer with a therapeutic agent interspersed therein and joined to the polymer layer. This implant is for placement in the sub-Tenon's space of the eye and provides sustained release of the therapeutic agent during the treatment or prevention of the disorder of the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: RETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST
    Inventor: Karl Csaky
  • Patent number: 9996151
    Abstract: A contact lens type line-of-sight detection apparatus has a shape such that it is wearable on an eyeball of a user. Furthermore, in the line-of-sight detection apparatus, a plurality of light-emitting sections that output light and a plurality of light-receiving elements that receive light reflected by an eyeball surface. The light-receiving elements receive light that has been output from the light-emitting sections and reflected by the eyeball surface and output light-receiving signals according to amounts of light received. The signal processing unit detects a line of sight of the user based on the light-receiving signals of the light-receiving elements. The present technology can be applied to a contact lens type line-of-sight detection apparatus or a display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Yoichiro Sako
  • Patent number: 9709822
    Abstract: A contact lens for application in practice of orthokeratology on an eye, including a curved shell having a concave surface and a convex surface. The concave surface includes a carrier zone and a back shaping zone, the back shaping zone having a first curvature and the carrier zone having at least one second curvature. The curved shell has a geometric center and the back shaping zone has a shaping zone center and the back shaping zone center is offset peripherally from the geometric center. The curved shell can have an overall diameter that approximates a corneal limbal diameter of the eye to which the contact lens is to be applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Inventor: Vance M. Thompson
  • Patent number: 9389342
    Abstract: A variable-focus lens system that includes a lens assembly having an electrowetting liquid lens that can be wrapped onto a curved surface such as a lens without distorting a chamber holding the electrowetting liquid lens is provided. The lens assembly includes a container body having a cup, in which the chamber is defined, and supports that extend in different directions from the cup. A flexible base substrate is arranged under the container body. Both the container body and flexible base substrate may be made from a soft polymer material and made using low-temperature fabrication processes. The flexible base substrate may be thinner than the container body and provide a relatively large surface area that engages the curved surface such that the stresses associated with wrapping a micro lens assembly onto the curved surface may be primarily absorbed by the flexible base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Hongrui Jiang, Chenhui Li
  • Patent number: 9086580
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to the use of contact lenses for treating ophthalmologic conditions, such as presbyopia, induced myopia, computer vision syndrome, insufficient accommodation, or a condition associated with insufficient accommodation. The contact lens may be selected based on a measured sagittal depth and/or eccentricity of the cornea. When fitted, fluid may accumulate between the cornea of the eye and the contact lens. The lens may exhibit a sufficient amount of apical clearance such that when the wearer blinks, the lens moves no more than 1 mm on the eye. The lens may be structured such that bubbles greater than 0.5 mm in diameter are prevented from forming between the contact lens and the eye. The contact lens may be used in combination with a suitable bioactive agent providing for enhanced visual correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Osio Corporation
    Inventors: Stuart C. Grant, Alberto Osio Hernandez-Pons, John Michael Rinehart
  • Patent number: 8876286
    Abstract: Multifocal contact lenses and methods and uses are described. The multifocal contact lenses include an optic zone. The optic zone has an aspheric power profile that provides a near vision refractive power and a distance vision refractive power, and provides an Add power that corresponds to the difference between the near vision refractive power and the distance vision refractive power. The multifocal contact lenses can improve binocular vision of presbyopic subjects by being prescribed such that the non-dominant eye contact lens is over-corrected for distance vision, and both multifocal contact lenses are under-corrected for the Add power requirement of the subject. Batches and sets of multifocal contact lenses are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: CooperVision International Holding Company, LP
    Inventor: Arthur Back
  • Patent number: 8876287
    Abstract: Ophthalmic lenses provide clear visual acuity and present a myopic defocused image to the lens wearer at both near and distant viewing distances. The present lenses are used in methods to reduce ocular accommodative error in lens wearers. Methods of manufacturing the present lenses are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: CooperVision International Holdings Company, LP
    Inventors: Arthur Back, Kuang-mon Ashley Tuan
  • Patent number: 8690320
    Abstract: A contact lens such as a toric contact lens having hybrid stabilization features is disclosed. The lens includes a lens edge, a vertical meridian, a horizontal meridian, a superior region, an inferior region, an optical zone, a prism ballast zone and a peri ballast zone, wherein the contact lens has a dimple zone disposed between the optical zone and the lens edge and is centered on the inferior vertical meridian.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert K. Stupplebeen, Jennifer Zuba
  • Patent number: 8678583
    Abstract: Mutifocal diffractive lenses are generally designed with concentric annular zones comprising blazed steps of equal area. Trifocal diffractive lenses differ in the intensity of light that they diffract into each of their three different powers. Usually, this light distribution has been adjusted by varying the step heights of the blazed steps within the annular zones. This invention discloses a trifocal diffractive lens wherein the equal area annular zones are further subdivided into two sub-zones wherein each sub-zone comprises a discrete blazed step. The sub-zones of this invention may be of unequal area. This allows the light distribution at its focal powers to be adjusted by varying not only the step heights of the blazed steps of the sub-zones, but also the relative areas of the sub-zones. The present invention allows for an increased flexibility in the design of multifocal diffractive lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Inventor: Allen Louis Cohen
  • Publication number: 20140063444
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a translating multifocal contact lens including one or more of multiple Optic Zones, a lower-lid contact surface, and an under-lid support structure and method steps and apparatus for implementing the same. In preferred embodiments, a translating multifocal lens with at least a portion of one surface may be Free-formed comprising one or both of a lower-lid contact surface and an under-lid support structure capable of limiting the amount of translation of a lens across a surface of an eye when an eye changes from one Optic Zone to another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventor: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20130258274
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a translating multifocal contact Lens including one or both of a lower-lid contact surface and an under-lid support structure. More specifically, a translating multifocal contact Lens whereby a lower-lid contact surface may include multiple geometric variations and Blend Zones, and an under-lid support structure that may be designed based upon one or more various techniques including one or more of a function-driven technique, a uniform axial thickness technique, a uniform radial thickness technique, and a MES technique.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Wildsmith, Michael Widman, Jonathan P. Adams
  • Publication number: 20120176582
    Abstract: Ophthalmic lenses provide clear visual acuity and present a myopic defocused image to the lens wearer at both near and distant viewing distances. The present lenses are used in methods to reduce ocular accommodative error in lens wearers. Methods of manufacturing the present lenses are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2010
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: COOPERVISION INTERNATIONAL HOLDING COMPANY, LP
    Inventors: Arthur Back, Kuang-mon Ashley Tuan