Patents Assigned to AMO Wavefront Sciences, LLC
  • Patent number: 10582847
    Abstract: Improved devices, systems, and methods for planning cataract surgery on an eye of a patient incorporate results of prior corrective surgeries into a planned cataract surgery of a particular patient by driving an effective surgery vector function based on data from the prior corrective surgeries. The exemplary effective surgery vector employs an influence matrix which may allow improved refractive corrections to be generated so as to increase the overall efficacy of a cataract surgery by specifying one or more parameters of an intraocular lens (IOL) to be implanted during the cataract surgery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: AMO WaveFront Sciences, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas D. Raymond, Daniel R. Neal, Richard J. Copland, Wei Xiong, Paul Pulaski, Stephen W. Farrer, Carmen Canovas Vidal, Daniel R. Hamrick
  • Patent number: 10583039
    Abstract: Improved devices, systems, and methods for planning cataract surgery on an eye of a patient incorporate results of prior corrective surgeries into a planned cataract surgery of a particular patient by driving an effective surgery vector function based on data from the prior corrective surgeries. The exemplary effective surgery vector employs an influence matrix which may allow improved refractive corrections to be generated so as to increase the overall efficacy of a cataract surgery by specifying one or more parameters of an intraocular lens (IOL) to be implanted during the cataract surgery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: AMO WaveFront Sciences, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas D. Raymond, Daniel R. Neal, Richard J. Copland, Wei Xiong, Paul Pulaski, Stephen W. Farrer, Carmen Canovas Vidal, Daniel R. Hamrick
  • Patent number: 10582846
    Abstract: Improved devices, systems, and methods for planning cataract surgery on an eye of a patient incorporate results of prior corrective surgeries into a planned cataract surgery of a particular patient by driving an effective surgery vector function based on data from the prior corrective surgeries. The exemplary effective surgery vector employs an influence matrix which may allow improved refractive corrections to be generated so as to increase the overall efficacy of a cataract surgery by specifying one or more parameters of an intraocular lens (IOL) to be implanted during the cataract surgery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: AMO WaveFront Sciences, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas D. Raymond, Daniel R. Neal, Richard J. Copland, Wei Xiong, Paul Pulaski, Stephen W. Farrer, Carmen Canovas Vidal, Daniel R. Hamrick
  • Patent number: 10555669
    Abstract: An optical coherence tomography (OCT) interferometer includes at least a first optical fiber of a first type having a first length, in series with a second optical fiber of a second type which is different than the first type and having a second length, in at least one of the sample path and/or the reference path of the OCT interferometer. The dispersion characteristics of the first optical fiber and the second optical fiber are significantly different than each other. As a result, the total group delay dispersion of a first portion of the laser light passing through the sample path and the total group delay dispersion of the second portion of the laser light passing through the reference path may offset each other at the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: AMO Wavefront Sciences, LLC
    Inventors: Paul D. Pulaski, Thomas D. Raymond
  • Patent number: 10506923
    Abstract: An optical measurement system and apparatus for carrying out cataract diagnostics in an eye of a patient includes a Corneal Topography Subsystem, a wavefront aberrometer subsystem, and an eye structure imaging subsystem, wherein the subsystems have a shared optical axis, and each subsystem is operatively coupled to the others via a controller. The eye structure imaging subsystem is preferably a fourierdomain optical coherence tomographer, and more preferably, a swept source OCT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: AMO WaveFront Sciences, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Neal, Thomas D. Raymond, Richard J. Copland, Wei Xiong, Paul D. Pulaski, Stephen Farrer, Carmen Canovas Vidal, Daniel Hamrick
  • Patent number: 10500092
    Abstract: Improved devices, systems, and methods for diagnosing, planning treatments of, and/or treating the refractive structures of an eye of a patient incorporate results of prior refractive corrections into a planned refractive treatment of a particular patient by driving an effective treatment vector function based on data from the prior eye treatments. The exemplary effective treatment vector employs an influence matrix which may allow improved refractive corrections to be generated so as to increase the overall accuracy of laser eye surgery (including LASIK, PRK, and the like), customized intraocular lenses (IOLs), refractive femtosecond treatments, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: AMO WaveFront Sciences, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas D. Raymond, Daniel R. Neal
  • Patent number: 10492680
    Abstract: A conical topographer includes: a flat panel display configured to display a light pattern and to project the light pattern onto a cornea of an eye disposed on a first side of the flat panel display; an optical system disposed on a second side of the flat panel display, the optical system being configured to receive and process reflected light from the cornea that passes through the flat panel display from the cornea to the optical system; a camera configured to receive the processed reflected light from the optical system and to capture therefrom a reflected light pattern from the cornea produced in response to the projected light pattern; and one or more processors configured to execute an algorithm to compare the projected light pattern to the reflected light pattern from the cornea, and to produce a topographic map of the cornea based on a result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: AMO WAVEFRONT SCIENCES, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen W. Farrer, W. Shea Powers, Daniel R. Neal, Larry B. Voss
  • Patent number: 10485417
    Abstract: A system and method for measuring a characteristic of an eye of a subject receive data pertaining to the subject; assign the subject to an assigned age category based on the data pertaining to the subject; adjust a brightness level of a fixation target according to the assigned age category for the subject; provide the fixation target for a subject to view; and objectively measure at least one characteristic of the eye of the subject while the subject views the fixation target at the adjusted brightness level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: AMO WaveFront Sciences, LLC
    Inventors: Richard J. Copland, David J. Tanzer, Thomas D. Raymond
  • Patent number: 10456026
    Abstract: A system for predicting optical power for an intraocular lens based upon measured biometric parameters in a patient's eye includes: a biometric reader capable of measuring one or more biometric parameters of the patient's eye and obtaining at least one value for at least one of the one or more biometric parameters, and further measuring a representation of a corneal topography of the patient's eye; a processor; and a computer readable medium coupled to the processor and having stored thereon a program that upon execution causes the processor to: receive the at least one value; obtain a corneal spherical aberration (SA) based upon the representation of the corneal topography; and calculate an optimized optical power to obtain a desired postoperative condition by applying the received at least one value and the obtained corneal spherical aberration to a modified regression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: AMO WaveFront Sciences, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel R. Neal, Thomas D. Raymond, Richard J. Copland, Wei Xiong, Stephen W. Farrer, Paul D. Pulaski, Daniel R. Hamrick, Carmen Canovas Vidal, Pablo Artal
  • Patent number: 10201276
    Abstract: An optical measurement system: passes a probe light beam through a variable focal length lens to the retina of an eye, and returns light from the retina through the variable focal length lens to a wavefront sensor; adjusts the focal length of the variable focal length lens to provide a desired characteristic to at least one of: the probe light beam, and the light returned by the retina to the wavefront sensor; passes a calibration light through the variable focal length lens to the wavefront sensor while the variable focal length lens is at the adjusted focal length to ascertain the adjusted focal length; and makes a wavefront measurement of the eye from the light returned from the retina of the eye through the variable focal length lens to the wavefront sensor, and from the adjusted focal length ascertained from the calibration light received by the wavefront sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: AMO WaveFront Sciences, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel R. Neal, Richard J. Copland
  • Patent number: 10188287
    Abstract: An optical measurement system method for measuring a characteristic of a subject's eye use a probe beam having an infrared wavelength in the infrared spectrum to measure a refraction of the subject's eye at the infrared wavelength; capture at least two different Purkinje images at two different corresponding wavelengths from at least one surface of the lens of the subject's eye; determine from the at least two different Purkinje images a value for at least one parameter of the subject's eye; use the value of the at least one parameter to determine a customized chromatic adjustment factor for the subject's eye; and correct the measured refraction of the subject's eye at the infrared wavelength with the customized chromatic adjustment factor to determine a refraction of the subject's eye at a visible wavelength in the visible spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: AMO WaveFront Sciences, LLC
    Inventors: Richard J. Copland, Daniel R. Neal, Thomas D. Raymond, Stephen W. Farrer
  • Patent number: 10149613
    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: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: AMO Wavefront Sciences, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel R. Neal, Stephen W. Farrer, Larry B. Voss, Thomas D. Raymond, Daniel R. Hamrick, John G. Dixson, Phillip Riera, Ron R. Rammage, Richard J. Copland
  • Patent number: 10119803
    Abstract: Swept source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) systems and methods may employ down-conversion. Down-converter systems and methods may utilize a distribution element and a frequency down shifter. The distribution element may receive an output signal of a photo detection device, the output signal comprising a first frequency component at or below a maximum conversion frequency and a second frequency component above the maximum conversion frequency. The distribution element may send the first frequency component to an analog to digital (A/D) converter and send the second frequency component to a frequency down shifter. The frequency down shifter may down shift the second frequency component to a frequency at or below the maximum conversion frequency to form a down shifted second frequency component. The frequency down shifter may send the down shifted second frequency component to the A/D converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: AMO WaveFront Sciences, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas D. Raymond, Isaac Neal, Daniel R. Hamrick, Thomas M. Shay
  • Patent number: 10105045
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods that facilitate optical analysis, particularly for the diagnosis and treatment of refractive errors of the eye. An optical diagnostic method for an eye includes obtaining a sequence of aberration measurements of the eye, identifying an outlier aberration measurement of the sequence of aberration measurements, and excluding the outlier aberration measurement from the sequence of aberration measurements to produce a qualified sequence of aberration measurements. The sequence of aberrations measurements can be obtained by using a wavefront sensor. An optical correction for the eye can be formulated in response to the qualified sequence of aberration measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: AMO WaveFront Sciences, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel R. Neal, Thomas D. Raymond, Leander Zickler
  • Patent number: 10098534
    Abstract: An optical measurement system and method measure a characteristic of a subject's eye. The optical measurement system receives from an operator, via a user interface of the optical measurement instrument, a begin measurement instruction indicating the start of a measurement period for objectively measuring at least one characteristic of the subject's eye. Subsequent to receiving the begin measurement instruction, the optical measurement system determines whether a criterion associated with the tear film quality of the subject's eye is not satisfied. In response to determining that the criterion is not satisfied, the optical measurement instrument takes one or more corrective actions to measure the characteristic of the subject's eye under a condition wherein the criterion is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: AMO WAVEFRONT SCIENCES, LLC
    Inventors: Richard J. Copland, John G. Dixson
  • Patent number: 10085634
    Abstract: An optical coherence tomography (OCT) system includes: a light source; a multi-focal delay line; and a light detector. The multi-focal delay line includes: a positive lens; and an optical switch configured to: receive a light from the light source; selectively direct the sample light to the positive lens via a selected one of a plurality of light interfaces each located a different distance from the focal plane of the positive lens; and direct the sample light to an object to be measured. The light detector is configured to receive return light returned from the object to be measured in response to the sample light, and to receive a reference light produced from the light from the light source, and in response thereto to detect at least one interference signal. An associated OCT method may be performed with the OCT system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: AMO WaveFront Sciences, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Pulaski, Daniel R. Neal, Thomas D. Raymond, Stephen W. Farrer, Daniel R. Hamrick, Richard J. Copland
  • Patent number: 10058244
    Abstract: Angle multiplexed optical coherence tomography systems and methods can be used to evaluate ocular tissue and other anatomical structures or features of a patient. The angle multiplexed optical coherence tomography system includes a light source, an optical assembly for obtaining a plurality of sample beams corresponding to respective anatomical locations of the eye of the patient, where individual sample beams are associated with a respective non-zero angle relative to a reference beam, and a detection mechanism that detects individual unique interference patterns respectively provided by the plurality of sample beams, for simultaneous evaluation of the anatomical locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: AMO Wavefront Sciences, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas D. Raymond, Devon E. Reid
  • Patent number: 9962077
    Abstract: A corneal topographer includes: a flat panel display configured to display a light pattern and to project the light pattern onto a cornea of an eye disposed on a first side of the flat panel display; an optical system disposed on a second side of the flat panel display, the optical system being configured to receive and process reflected light from the cornea that passes through the flat panel display from the cornea to the optical system; a camera configured to receive the processed reflected light from the optical system and to capture therefrom a reflected light pattern from the cornea produced in response to the projected light pattern; and one or more processors configured to execute an algorithm to compare the projected light pattern to the reflected light pattern from the cornea, and to produce a topographic map of the cornea based on a result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: AMO Wavefront Sciences, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen W. Farrer, W. Shea Powers, Daniel R. Neal, Larry B. Voss
  • Patent number: 9788713
    Abstract: Systems and methods for modifying an eye including a light source with light elements, a photodetector producing a signal representing images of the light elements and corresponding to locations on an ocular surface, an optical system directing light from the light elements reflected by the ocular surface onto the photodetector, a memory including code for processing the signal, and a processor for executing the code and outputting shape data for use in calculating a treatment plan for the eye. The code includes instructions for determining the shape data based on a combination of zonal reconstruction and polynomial fitting using the plurality of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: AMO Wavefront Sciences LLC.
    Inventor: Stephen W. Farrer
  • Patent number: 9757025
    Abstract: A system and method for measuring a characteristic of an eye of a subject receive data pertaining to the subject; assign the subject to an assigned age category based on the data pertaining to the subject; adjust a brightness level of a fixation target according to the assigned age category for the subject; provide the fixation target for a subject to view; and objectively measure at least one characteristic of the eye of the subject while the subject views the fixation target at the adjusted brightness level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: AMO WAVEFRONT SCIENCES, LLC
    Inventors: Richard J. Copland, David J. Tanzer, Thomas D. Raymond