Intraocular Lens Patents (Class 623/6.11)
  • Patent number: 11903818
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an intraocular pseudophakic contact lens having a first optical lens, multiple projections extending from the first optical lens, and multiple anchors partially embedded in or configured to pass through the projections. The anchors are configured to pierce lens material forming a second optical lens of an artificial intraocular lens in order to secure the intraocular pseudophakic contact lens to the artificial intraocular lens. Different portions of the first optical lens have different refractive powers such that a first portion of the first optical lens has a first refractive power and a second portion of the first optical lens has a second refractive power different from the first refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: OnPoint Vision, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin J. Cady
  • Patent number: 11896304
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for in vivo pre-surgical characterization of lenses, such as cataractous lenses. A method comprises obtaining an electromagnetically-measured value related to the axial thickness of the lens, obtaining an ultrasound-measured value related to the axial thickness of the lens, calculating a relationship value based upon the electromagnetically-measured value and the ultrasound-measured value, and determining a mechanical property value based upon the calculated relationship value. The mechanical property may relate to lens hardness, rigidity, or density, or the amount of energy for a phacoemulsification procedure. A system may comprise an optical interferometer for measuring data to obtain the electromagnetically-measured value and an ultrasound biometer for measuring data to obtain the ultrasound-measured value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Zsolt Bor, Mikhail Ovchinnikov
  • Patent number: 11899286
    Abstract: A lens element worn in front of an eye of a person includes a refraction area having a refractive power based on a prescription for the eye of the person, and a plurality of at least three optical elements, wherein the optical elements are configured so that along at least one section of the lens the mean sphere of optical elements increases from a point of the section towards the peripheral part of the section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Matthieu Guillot, Björn Drobe
  • Patent number: 11809019
    Abstract: An electronic contact lens. In some embodiments, the electronic contact lens includes a plurality of power-consuming circuits and a power supply circuit. The power supply circuit may be configured to distribute available power among two voltage domains in the electronic contact lens according to changing power requirements within the two voltage domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Tectus Corporation
    Inventor: Mohammad Hekmat
  • Patent number: 11795151
    Abstract: Provided is a benzotriazole compound that efficiently absorbs ray having a long wavelength of 360-400 nm, i) having excellent solubility in a monomer of a resin raw material, being dissolvable at a high concentration, polymerizing at excellent reactivity, and yielding a high-molecular-weight resin member and a transparent resin member, or ii) having exceptional heat resistance. This benzotriazole compound is represented by formula (I), where at least one of R1-R9 is represented by formula (i-1), (where R10 and R11 are hydrocarbon groups, etc., and R12 is represented by formula (i-2) or formula (i-3) (in formula (i-2), A1 represents a divalent group selected from nitrogen-Containing groups, oxygen-containing groups, sulfur-containing groups, phosphorus-containing groups, and phenylene groups, and R12a-R12c and X represent hydrocarbon groups, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: MIYOSHI OIL & FAT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Kaneko, Kotaro Kaneko, Koji Kawai
  • Patent number: 11768386
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to ophthalmic devices such as ophthalmic lenses. An ophthalmic device may comprise an ophthalmic lens for at least one of slowing, retarding or preventing myopia progression. The ophthalmic lens may comprise a center zone with a negative power for myopic vision correction; and at least one treatment zone surrounding the center zone, the at least one treatment zone having a power profile comprising an ADD power, the at least one treatment zone having a surface shape comprising a portion of a generally toroidal shape, wherein the at least one treatment zone is arranged as to form a continuous surface with the center zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Noel A. Brennan, Xu Cheng, Jaclyn V. Hernandez, Michael J. Collins, Brett A. Davis, Fan Yi, Derek Dean Nankivil
  • Patent number: 11766293
    Abstract: Systems and methods for intraocular lens selection include receiving, by one or more computing devices implementing a prediction engine, pre-operative multi-dimensional images of an eye; extracting, by the prediction engine, pre-operative measurements of the eye based on the pre-operative images; estimating, by the prediction engine using a prediction model based on a machine learning strategy, a post-operative position of an intraocular lens based on the extracted pre-operative measurements; selecting a power of the intraocular lens based on the estimated post-operative position of the intraocular lens; and selecting the intraocular lens based on the selected power. In some embodiments, the systems and methods further include receiving post-operative multi-dimensional images of the eye after implantation of the selected intraocular lens, extracting post-operative measurements of the eye, and updating the prediction model based on the pre-operative measurements and the post-operative measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Zsolt Bor, Imre Hegedus
  • Patent number: 11754859
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to ophthalmic devices such as ophthalmic lenses. An ophthalmic device may comprise an ophthalmic lens for at least one of slowing, retarding or preventing myopia progression. The ophthalmic lens may comprise a center zone with a negative power for myopic vision correction; and at least one treatment zone surrounding the center zone, the at least one treatment zone having a power profile comprising an ADD power, the at least one treatment zone having a surface shape comprising a portion of a generally toroidal shape, wherein the at least one treatment zone is arranged as to form a continuous surface with the center zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc
    Inventors: Noel A. Brennan, Xu Cheng, Jaclyn V. Hernandez, Michael J. Collins, Brett A. Davis, Fan Yi, Derek Dean Nankivil
  • Patent number: 11733543
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a smart wearable lens mounted with an all-solid-state thin film secondary battery including a flexible substrate, a cathode current collector, a cathode, a solid electrolyte, an anode, and an anode current collector. The smart wearable lens mounted with the all-solid-state thin film secondary battery may be stably and continuously supplied with power and has a low self-discharge rate. In addition, the smart wearable lens may minimize aversion when humans are wearing the smart wearable lens and be suitably used for a curved lens, especially a micro-lens such as a contact lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Ji-Won Choi, Yong-Won Song, Hyunjung Yi, Jin Sang Kim, Chong Yun Kang, Seong Keun Kim, Seung Hyub Baek, Sang Tae Kim, Hyun Seok Lee
  • Patent number: 11678978
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lens case (50, 150) for accommodating an intraocular lens, IOL (1). The lens case (50, 150) comprises a lens case body (3, 103) and a sliding element (4, 104) which can slide on the lens case body from a first position to a second position. The lens case body (3, 103) comprises a longitudinal recess (32, 132), having a first part (32a, 132a) and a second part (32b, 132b), the first part (32a, 132a) being adapted to receive a side zone of the IOL (1) comprising at least one haptic (2), the second part (32b, 132b) being adapted to receive a narrower central zone of the IOL (1). The sliding element (4, 104) comprises a bolt (5, 105a) arranged adjacent a loading port (34, 134) of the second part (32b, 132b) of the recess (32, 132) for displacing the IOL (1) within the recess (32, 132).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: MEDICONTUR MEDICAL ENGINEERING LIMITED
    Inventors: Peter Hangya, Laszlo Kontur
  • Patent number: 11633276
    Abstract: An intraocular lens (IOL) folding device is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Yinghui Wu, Douglas Brent Wensrich, Todd Taber, Len Takudzwa Magara
  • Patent number: 11617506
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for in vivo pre-surgical characterization of lenses, such as cataractous lenses. A method comprises obtaining an electromagnetically-measured value related to the axial thickness of the lens, obtaining an ultrasound-measured value related to the axial thickness of the lens, calculating a relationship value based upon the electromagnetically-measured value and the ultrasound-measured value, and determining a mechanical property value based upon the calculated relationship value. The mechanical property may relate to lens hardness, rigidity, or density, or the amount of energy for a phacoemulsification procedure. A system may comprise an optical interferometer for measuring data to obtain the electromagnetically-measured value and an ultrasound biometer for measuring data to obtain the ultrasound-measured value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Zsolt Bor, Mikhail Ovchinnikov
  • Patent number: 11583392
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved ophthalmic lenses, particularly intraocular lenses (IOLs), include features for reducing dysphotopsia effects, such as haloes and glare. Exemplary ophthalmic lenses can include an optic having a central region disposed about an optical axis and a peripheral region extending outward from the central region, with a diffractive achromat positioned on the peripheral region, and the central region lacking an achromat, and a base power for distance of the central region being the same as a base power for distance of the peripheral region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: AMO Groningen B.V.
    Inventors: Robert Rosen, Franck Gounou
  • Patent number: 11547608
    Abstract: An intraocular implant device for comprehensive intraocular vision advancement includes an intraocular implant body shaped for positioning inside a lens chamber of an eye. In some embodiments, the implant includes an optical adjustable base accommodating lens configured to provide both base adjustment and accommodation. In further embodiments, the implant includes a photoelectric sensor operable to receive incident light through the cornea and to convert the received light into electrical energy for use with one or more circuit components disposed on the body, and wherein the photoelectric sensor is also operable to convert the received light into image data. The ocular implant device may include a projector for projecting the image data onto the retina of a user. The ocular implant may additionally include an autofocusing digital camera, an autofocusing electromechanical lens array, and sensors for detecting glucose levels and/or intraocular eye pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Inventor: Manjinder Saini
  • Patent number: 11364110
    Abstract: Intraocular implants and methods of forming intraocular implants are described herein. The intraocular implant can include a powered optic and a lens holder. The optic can be mechanically coupled to an inner periphery of the lens holder to form the intraocular implant. A portion of the lens holder can include a mask disposed about the optic to increase depth of focus in a human patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: AcuFocus, Inc.
    Inventor: R. Kyle Webb
  • Patent number: 11123178
    Abstract: An IOL calculator is disclosed to determine the spherical equivalent (SE) and cylinder power for toric lenses and ophthalmic apparatuses having the extended band of operational meridian, such as the rotational extended tolerant toric intraocular lens. The IOL calculator may also be used for an extended rotational tolerant toric intraocular lens, an extended depth of field intraocular lens, an extended depth of field toric intraocular lens, an extended range of vision intraocular lens, and an extended range of vision toric intraocular lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.
    Inventor: Huawei Zhao
  • Patent number: 11045309
    Abstract: Intraocular lenses (IOLs) that improve lens stability by, for example, increasing anterior-posterior stiffness of the IOL, increasing anterior-posterior dimensions of the IOL and/or increasing contact area with the equator of the bag to resist movement of the IOL as the bag collapses over time. These IOLs may be non-modular (single component) or modular (multiple component). In modular embodiments, the IOL system may include intraocular base and optic components, which, when combined, form a modular IOL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignees: The Regents of the University of Colorado, Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Malik Y. Kahook, Glenn Sussman, Rudolph F. Zacher, Paul J. McLean, Robert E. Atkinson
  • Patent number: 10973404
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for in vivo pre-surgical characterization of lenses, such as cataractous lenses. A method comprises obtaining an electromagnetically-measured value related to the axial thickness of the lens, obtaining an ultrasound-measured value related to the axial thickness of the lens, calculating a relationship value based upon the electromagnetically-measured value and the ultrasound-measured value, and determining a mechanical property value based upon the calculated relationship value. The mechanical property may relate to lens hardness, rigidity, or density, or the amount of energy for a phacoemulsification procedure. A system may comprise an optical interferometer for measuring data to obtain the electromagnetically-measured value and an ultrasound biometer for measuring data to obtain the ultrasound-measured value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Inventors: Zsolt Bor, Mikhail Ovchinnikov
  • Patent number: 10898315
    Abstract: A prosthetic capsular device configured to be inserted in an eye after removal of a lens, in some embodiments, can comprise a housing structure comprising capable of containing an intraocular device and an equiconvex refractive surface. The housing structure can comprise an anterior portion comprising an anterior opening, a posterior portion comprising a posterior opening, and a continuous lateral portion between the anterior portion and the posterior portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Omega Ophthalmics LLC
    Inventors: Gary N. Wortz, Rick William Ifland
  • Patent number: 10888380
    Abstract: Systems and methods for intraocular lens selection include receiving, by one or more computing devices implementing a prediction engine, pre-operative multi-dimensional images of an eye; extracting, by the prediction engine, pre-operative measurements of the eye based on the pre-operative images; estimating, by the prediction engine using a prediction model based on a machine learning strategy, a post-operative position of an intraocular lens based on the extracted pre-operative measurements; selecting a power of the intraocular lens based on the estimated post-operative position of the intraocular lens; and selecting the intraocular lens based on the selected power. In some embodiments, the systems and methods further include receiving post-operative multi-dimensional images of the eye after implantation of the selected intraocular lens, extracting post-operative measurements of the eye, and updating the prediction model based on the pre-operative measurements and the post-operative measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Inventors: Zsolt Bor, Imre Hegedus
  • Patent number: 10809524
    Abstract: The disclosed apparatus may include (1) a deformable stepped lens that (a) provides a first optical power when a shape of the deformable stepped lens includes a first state, and (b) provides a second optical power different from the first optical power when the shape of the deformable stepped lens includes a second state different from the first state and (2) an actuator coupled to the deformable stepped lens that, when actuated, applies force to the deformable stepped lens to alter the shape of the deformable stepped lens from the first state to the second state. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Sohn, Nelson Cardenas
  • Patent number: 10776475
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and computer program product. Input element layout data based on a layout of input elements of an input device is retrieved in response to a received password input request. A positioning marker and a visualized overlay input device including an altered layout of input elements is generated based on the retrieved input element layout data. The visualized overlay input device and the positioning marker are rendered for display by a see-through display device for viewing of the visualized overlay input device in superposition with respect to the input device. An effective input configuration of the layout of input elements of the input device is generated to correspond to the altered layout of input elements for entry of the password input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Akira Ohkado
  • Patent number: 10758339
    Abstract: An intraocular lens assembly configured to effectively transfer movement of a zonule of Zinn to improve performance of an intraocular lens. The intraocular lens assembly is inserted into the eyeball, and includes: an intraocular lens support body (10) configured in a shape of a ring inserted into the capsular sac of the eyeball, and provided with an outer circumferential surface (11) including a first front contact portion (11a) and a first rear contact portion (11b), and an inner circumferential surface (12) facing the outer circumferential surface (11) and including a second front contact portion (12a) and a second rear contact portion (12b); a connection means (50) including a deformation facilitating groove (52c) provided between a third front contact portion (52a) and a third rear contact portion (52b) and forming a space spaced apart from the inner circumferential surface (12); and an intraocular lens (30) connected to the connection means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: LOSEC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kyung Jin Park
  • Patent number: 10675147
    Abstract: Additive manufacturing techniques are used to form an artificial intra-ocular lens (IOL) directly inside the human eye. Small openings are formed in the cornea and lens capsule of the eye, and the crystalline lens is broken up and removed through the openings; then, a material is injected into the lens capsule through the openings, and the focal spot of a pulse laser beam is scanned in a defined pattern in the lens capsule, to transform the material in the vicinity of the laser focal spot to form the IOL in a layer-by-layer manner. In one embodiment, stereolithography techniques are used where a pulse UV laser source is used to photosolidify a photopolymer resin. The liquefied resin is injected into the eye through the openings, after which only part of the resin, having the shape of the desired IOL, is selectively cured with the UV laser beam, via progressive layer formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: AMO Development, LLC
    Inventor: Javier G. Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 10456241
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to switchable lens devices, systems, and methods related to detecting one or more commands and switching one or more switchable lenses responsive to one or more detected commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: ELWHA LLC
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Jordin T. Kare, John Marshall, Clarence T. Tegreene, Roberto Zaldivar, Roger Zaldivar
  • Patent number: 10383721
    Abstract: An ocular implant and a method for implanting such an ocular implant inside an eye includes an optical portion and at least two polymer haptics for fixation of the ocular implant to tissue inside an eye. At least one portion of the haptics contains a photoinitiating agent delivery component. A kit for implanting an ocular implant in an eye includes an ocular implant at least two polymer haptics; and additionally a photoinitiating agent for at least partially impregnating a first portion of the ocular element or a second portion of tissue in the eye; and, a light source for providing light of a wavelength adapted to excite the photoinitiating agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignees: CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS, THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Susana Marcos Celestino, Carlos Dorronsoro Díaz, Nicolás Alejandre Alba, Andrés De La Hoz Durán, Irene Emily Kochevar
  • Patent number: 10105214
    Abstract: An accommodating intraocular lens for providing a range of accommodative vision includes a deformable optic. The deformable optic includes a plurality of layers that have a progressively increasing hardness and/or refractive index characteristic from the outermost layer to the innermost layer to provide a range of accommodative power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.
    Inventor: Huawei Zhao
  • Patent number: 9814382
    Abstract: A method for calculating the power of an intraocular lens including measuring an axial separation between the front surface of the cornea and the plane of the iris root; and determining the power of the intraocular lens using the measured axial separation together with other measured parameters and empirically determined lens constants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Rudolf Murai Von Bünau, Burkhard Wagner, Scott A. Meyer, Xunchang Chen
  • Patent number: 9757227
    Abstract: An intraocular assembly includes a peripheral side wall (12) that has a rim (16) sized to receive therein an intraocular device, and a posterior peripheral edge (20) that is sharp and extends out from a posteriorly-facing end face (22) of the side wall. An interior perimeter of the rim is a combination of continuous concave and convex shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: HANITA LENSES
    Inventors: Yakir Kushlin, Alex Maliarov, Guy Kleinmann
  • Patent number: 9750602
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of ophthalmic systems and procedures. In particular, the invention relates to the determination of the post-operative position of an intraocular lens (termed “IOL”) in an eye of a patient undergoing lens replacement surgery, which involves determining the position of the existing crystalline lens in the pre-operative eye of the patient and using that information and a single numerical constant to predict the post-operative intraocular lens position. Related methods, and computer programs for performing the methods of the invention, are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: IOL INNOVATIONS, APS
    Inventor: Thomas Olsen
  • Patent number: 9603703
    Abstract: An accommodating intraocular lens for providing a range of accommodative vision contains an optic and a haptic. The optic is disposed about an optical axis and includes an anterior surface and a posterior surface defining a clear aperture of the optic. The haptic is at least partially disposed inside the optic and includes an inner structure, an outer structure, and a plurality of arms disposed between and connecting the inner structure and the outer structure. The inner structure is circumferentially disposed about the optical axis, while the outer structure is circumferentially disposed about the inner structure and has an outer face. Each arm has proximal portion adjacent the inner structure and a distal portion adjacent the outer structure that is bifurcated in a radial direction from the proximal portion. The intraocular lens also has an outer surface defined by outer surfaces of the plurality of arms and an outer surface of the outer structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: ABBOTT MEDICAL OPTICS INC.
    Inventor: Timothy R Bumbalough
  • Patent number: 9462938
    Abstract: For the pre-operative calculation of the power of an intraocular lens, three input parameters are needed: the axial length of the eye (AL), the refractive power of the cornea, and the distance between the front of the cornea and the back focal plane of the intraocular lens, the so-called effective lens position (ELP). The invention shows a novel approach to the determination of the ELP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Rudolf Murai Von Bünau, Burkhard Wagner, Scott A. Meyer, Xunchang Chen
  • Patent number: 9421089
    Abstract: Disclosed are accommodating intraocular lenses for implantation in an eye having an optical axis. In certain embodiments, an intraocular lens includes an anterior optic, a posterior optic, and a support structure configured to move the optics relative to each other along an optical axis between an accommodated state and an unaccommodated state. In certain embodiments, at least a portion of the support structure can be modified in situ to alter reaction forces between the support structure and at least one structure of the eye. In certain embodiments, a refractive property of one of the anterior or posterior optics can be modified in situ while leaving the refractive properties of the remaining one of the anterior or posterior optics substantially unaffected. Additional embodiments and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: VISIOGEN, INC.
    Inventor: Gholam-Reza Zadno-Azizi
  • Patent number: 9380933
    Abstract: The present invention accurately predicts postoperative intraocular lens position on the basis of a shape image of the crystalline lens obtained by an optical interference tomographic imaging device. This makes it possible to reduce the postoperative refractive error and determine the power of the intraocular lens. The present invention comprises: a step for finding by computer the equatorial position, which is the site of maximum diameter in the crystalline lens, from the morphology of the crystalline lens obtained from a tomographic image of the patients eye generated by the optical interference tomographic imaging device; and a step for estimating the position of the intraocular lens from the equatorial position thus found.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: SCHOOL JURIDICAL PERSON KITASATO INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Shuntaro Tsunehiro
  • Patent number: 9295691
    Abstract: A method for repairing or replacing damaged tissue, or for providing post-surgical augmentation, comprising administering a pliable biocompatible material and a physiologically acceptable suspending agent to a patient is disclosed. Copolymers of unsubstituted acrylate and substituted acrylate are disclosed as pliable biocompatible materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Inventor: Ayman Boutros
  • Patent number: 9271829
    Abstract: A method for the preoperative selection of an intraocular lens to optimise the results of refractive surgery on the eye. On the basis of an eye model comprising the individual biometric parameters of the eye, potentially suitable IOLs are selected on the basis of their optical parameters such as optical power, asphericity and toricity, and the residual refraction of potentially suitable IOLs is calculated using ray tracing. Various metrics, preferably retinal image metrics, are used to calculate the residual refraction and in order to improve the selection, at least one additional parameter is taken into consideration for the calculation, said calculation taking the postoperative effects of the selected IOL and/or of the surgical technique used into account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Tobias Bühren, Michael Trost
  • Patent number: 9149356
    Abstract: An interior bag for a capsular bag of an eye comprises a discriminatingly permeable interior bag that selectively reduces fluid flow volume through the interior bag. The interior bag is secured inside the capsular bag. A structure, adapted to hold a refractive device, is attached to the interior bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Inventor: Faezeh Mona Sarfarazi
  • Patent number: 9107619
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical-image pickup apparatus including a setting unit configured to set the effective region or the resolution of a correction unit configured to correct the aberration of a subject; an aberration measuring unit configured to measure an aberration generated at the subject; and a control unit configured to control the correction unit on the basis of the measured aberration and the set effective region or the measured aberration and the set resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Nozato, Kazuhide Miyata
  • Publication number: 20150148900
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for manufacturing an object made of biocompatible hydrogel by molding a polymer solution in a mold made of a particular material, said process comprising the following steps: (i) preparation of a polymer solution by dissolving a copolymer of acrylonitrile and of an olefinically unsaturated co-monomer bearing anionic groups in an aprotic solvent, optionally in the presence of a nonsolvent, (ii) shaping and the start of gelation of the polymer solution obtained at the end of step (i) in a mold consisting of a material containing said nonsolvent or of a material permeable to said nonsolvent, (iii) immersion of the object undergoing gelation resulting from step (ii) in a nonsolvent. The present invention also relates to the objects made of biocompatible hydrogel resulting from this process such as, for example, intracorneal lenses (or lenticules) implantable in the cornea or any other implants usable in ophthalmology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventor: Laurent LAROCHE
  • Patent number: 9039760
    Abstract: An intraocular lens is disclosed with an optic that changes shape in response to forces exerted by the zonules of the eye. A haptic with an inner and outer ring couples the optic to the capsular bag of the eye. The haptic stresses the optic when the intraocular lens is in a natural state such that the internal stress is present throughout the accommodation range in order to prevent ripples and/or waves in the optic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Abbott Medical Optics Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel G. Brady, Randall L. Woods, Timothy R. Bumbalough, Edward P. Geraghty
  • Publication number: 20150109573
    Abstract: A functionalized polymer system is described herein for preparing and/or modifying biological implants and prostheses. In one aspect, the polymer system once applied to the surface of a biological implant or prosthesis, or once used in preparing a biological implant or prosthesis comprises a surface that is more hydrophilic, more wettable, more comfortable, resists cell adhesion, resists protein deposition, or a combination thereof. In one embodiment, a coated biological implant or prosthetic is described herein. The coated biological implant or prosthetic comprises a substrate forming the basic structure of the implant or prosthetic, and a coating comprising a polymer, where the coating is capable of resisting cell adhesion, protein deposition, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventor: Dong Xie
  • Patent number: 8956684
    Abstract: Apparatus, and methods of making and using apparatus, for inserting intraocular lenses (IOLs) are disclosed. The apparatus includes a hollow tube having an interior wall defining a hollow space through which an intraocular lens may be passed from the open space into an eye. A lubricity enhancing component is covalently bonded to the hollow tube at the interior wall in an amount effective to facilitate the passage of the intraocular lens through the hollow space. The lubricity enhancing component includes a substituent component effective to reduce hydrolysis of said lubricity enhancing component relative to an identical lubricity enhancing component without the substituent component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Abbott Medical Optics Inc.
    Inventors: Harish Makker, Can Hu, Michael D. Lowery
  • Patent number: 8940219
    Abstract: An ophthalmic device is formed by additive fabrication, the optical device having an optical surface with a surface roughness on the order of less than 10 microns. A method is provided for making an ophthalmic device including an optical surface having a surface roughness of less than 10 microns by depositing on a stage in a first relative position a first lamina of particulates having a size less than 10 microns and in select configurations less than two microns and certain configurations less than one micron, and, synergistically stimulating the first lamina of particulates to form a first solidified layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Inventors: Ronald Spoor, Sanjay M. Rastogi, Charles P. Henning
  • Patent number: 8901190
    Abstract: A method for modifying the refractive index of an optical, hydrogel polymeric material. The method comprises irradiating predetermined regions of an optical, polymeric material with a laser to form refractive structures. To facilitate the formation of the refractive structures the optical, hydrogel polymeric material comprises a photosensitizer. The presence of the photosensitizer permits one to set a scan rate to a value that is at least fifty times greater than a scan rate without the photosensitizer in the material, yet provides similar refractive structures in terms of the observed change in refractive index. Alternatively, the photosensitizer in the polymeric material permits one to set an average laser power to a value that is at least two times less than an average laser power without the photosensitizer in the material, yet provide similar refractive structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignees: University of Rochester, Rochester Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Thomas Smith, Wayne H. Knox, Li Ding, Dharmendra Jani, Jeffrey G. Linhardt
  • Patent number: 8900297
    Abstract: Disclosed are soft, high refractive index, acrylic device materials. The materials contain a hydrophilic side-chain macromer for glistening resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventor: Douglas C. Schlueter
  • Publication number: 20140350672
    Abstract: An ophthalmic lens is disclosed, one embodiment comprising an optic having an anterior surface and a posterior surface disposed about an optical axis, wherein at least one of the surfaces has a profile characterized by superposition of a base profile and an auxiliary profile, the auxiliary profile comprising a continuous pattern of surface deviations from the base profile. The auxiliary profile is a sinusoidal profile and can be amplitude modulated, frequency modulated or both amplitude and frequency modulated. The ophthalmic lens can be an IOL.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventor: Xin Hong
  • Patent number: 8852273
    Abstract: In one aspect, the present invention provides a method of designing an intraocular lens (IOL) to address variations of at least one ocular parameter in a population of patient eyes. The method can include establishing at least one eye model in which the ocular parameter can be varied over a range exhibited by the population. The eye model can be employed to evaluate a plurality of IOL designs in correcting visual acuity for eyes in the patient population. An IOL design that provides a best fit for visual performance over at least a portion of the parameter range can then be selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Xin Hong, Mutlu Karakelle, Xiaoxiao Zhang
  • Publication number: 20140268034
    Abstract: Ophthalmic lenses for the treatment of presbyopia may be improved to enhance the visual experience of the patient. By adjusting the optical design of presbyopic lenses to account for changes in pupil size due to the degree of myopia or hyperopia, an enhanced visual experience may be achieved independent of the level of ametropia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: JOHNSON & JOHNSON VISION CARE, INC.
    Inventors: C. BENJAMIN WOOLEY, JAMES WILLIAM HAYWOOD
  • Publication number: 20140249624
    Abstract: Apparatus for performing intraocular implant surgery, including surgical apparatus for performing intraocular implant surgery, an autorefraction device associated with the surgical apparatus, wherein the autorefraction device is configured to perform autorefraction on the aphakic eye to provide one or more aphakic refraction measurements, and a processor connected to the autorefraction device, wherein the processor is configured to process the aphakic refraction measurements and provide the user of the apparatus with information regarding the power of the intraocular lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: WaveTec Vision Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Tsontcho Ianchulev
  • Publication number: 20140240655
    Abstract: An eyelid position sensor system for an ophthalmic lens comprising an electronic system is described herein. The eyelid position sensor system is part of an electronic system incorporated into the ophthalmic lens. The electronic system includes one or more batteries or other power sources, power management circuitry, one or more sensors, clock generation circuitry, control algorithms and circuitry, and lens driver circuitry. The eyelid position sensor system is utilized to determine eyelid position and use this information to control various aspects of the ophthalmic lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: JOHNSON & JOHNSON VISION CARE, INC.
    Inventors: Randall Braxton Pugh, Adam Toner, Daniel B. Otts