Patents Assigned to Bausch & Lomb Incorporated
  • Hingeless cartridge for intraocular lens injector providing haptic control
    Patent number: 9237947
    Abstract: A method of loading an IOL having an optic and a leading haptic into a cartridge, comprising folding the leading haptic radially inward relative to the optic as the IOL moves into a lumen of the cartridge, by using a proximal end feature of the cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated
    Inventor: Moises A. Valle
  • System and method for creating a customized anatomical model of an eye
    Patent number: 9216066
    Abstract: A system and method for creating a line recognition template that replicates an object is provided for use as a control reference during ophthalmic surgery on the object. Creation of the template first requires aligning a plurality of reference points along a central “z” axis, with anatomically measured lengths (?“z”n) between adjacent reference points. Axially-symmetric surfaces can then be traced between selected, adjacent, reference points to create the template. For the present invention, the location of reference points, and the tracing of axially-symmetric surfaces, are based on a cross sectional image of the object for surgery. Preferably, the cross sectional image is obtained using Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignees: BAUSCH & LOMB INCORPORATED, TECHNOLAS PERFECT VISION GMBH
    Inventors: David Haydn Mordaunt, Holger Schlueter, Frieder Loesel
  • Ophthalmic instrument alignment apparatus and method of using same
    Patent number: 9186059
    Abstract: An ophthalmic instrument for use with a subject's eye, comprising an interferometer having a test arm in which the subject's eye is to be positioned and a reference arm, the reference arm including a mirror adapted to be positioned such that the reference arm has a predetermined length, and an ophthalmic apparatus coupled to the interferometer such that, by altering a test arm length, a length between the ophthalmic apparatus and the eye is also altered. The mirror is positioned to achieve the predetermined length and a length of the test arm is adjusted such that interference between the light reflected from the eye and the light reflected from the mirror is achieved, the ophthalmic apparatus is optically aligned with the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated
    Inventors: Gerhard Youssefi, Rupert Veith
  • Ergonomic hand-operable fluid-dispensing device
    Patent number: 9186690
    Abstract: A hand-operable system for ejecting a fluid composition into an eye, the system including: (1) a container having a container opening and containing the fluid composition; (2) a double-acting pump mechanism securely disposed over the container opening; and (3) an actuator that is disposed over, and extends radially outward from, the pump mechanism, for actuating the pump mechanism by applying a force thereon, wherein the pump mechanism includes a passage for the fluid composition, and the passage is positively sealed off when the application of the force is discontinued.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated
    Inventors: Christopher M. Scanlon, Patrick J. McCormick, Dana Matsuzaki
  • Hingeless cartridge for use with an intraocular lens injector providing haptic control
    Patent number: 9155615
    Abstract: An intraocular lens (“IOL”) cartridge includes an upper wall and a lower wall, together defining a lumen for receiving an IOL. The proximal end of the cartridge has an open slot cut into and through the entire thickness of the upper wall so to allow the leading haptic of the IOL to extend above the upper wall. The cartridge includes a proximal-end feature to facilitate folding of the leading haptic radially inward relative to the optic as the IOL moves into the lumen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated
    Inventors: Moises Valle, Nathan Belcher, Sushant Muchhala, Will Seo, Madhu Ayyagari
  • Contact lens solution with a tertiary amine oxide
    Patent number: 9125405
    Abstract: An aqueous contact lens solution comprising less than 100 ppm of a tertiary amine oxide of general formula wherein R1 is a C8-C18alkyl, and R2 and R3 are independently selected from a C1-C4alkyl or C1-C4hydroxyalkyl, and an antimicrobial component selected from the group consisting of biguanides, polymeric biguanides, quaternium ammonium compounds, hydrogen peroxide or a stabilized form of peroxide and any one mixture thereof. The solution has no anionic surfactant or less than 30 ppm of anionic surfactant. The invention is also directed to the use of the solution to clean and disinfect contact lenses, and in particular, soft, silicone, hydrogel contact lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated
    Inventors: Zora Marlowe, Hongna Wang, Susan E. Burke
  • Ophthalmic compositions with an amphoteric surfactant and an anionic biopolymer
    Patent number: 9096819
    Abstract: Ophthalmic compositions that comprise 0.1 ppm to 50 ppm of a cationic antimicrobial component selected from the group consisting of biguanides, polymeric biguanides, quaternium ammonium compounds and any one mixture thereof; 0.005 wt. % to 2 wt. % of an anionic biopolymer; and 0.01 wt. % to 2 wt. % of an amphoteric surfactant of general formula I wherein R1 is R or —(CH2)n—NHC(O)R, wherein R is a C8-C30alkyl optionally substituted with hydroxyl and n is 2, 3 or 4; R2 and R3 are each independently selected from C1-C4alkyl; R4 is a C2-C8alkylene optionally substituted with hydroxyl; and Y is CO2? or SO3. The invention is also direct to the use of the ophthalmic compositions to clean and disinfect contact lenses, and in particular, soft, silicone hydrogel contact lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated
    Inventors: Erning Xia, Susan E. Burke, Srini Venkatesh, Vicki Barniak, Praveen Tyle
  • System and method of calculating visual performance of an ophthalmic optical correction using simulation of imaging by a population of eye optical systems
    Patent number: 9091864
    Abstract: A method of calculating clinical performance of an ophthalmic optical correction using simulation by imaging a series of objects of different sizes by each of a plurality of eye optical systems, each of the eye optical systems including the ophthalmic optical correction, the method comprising A.) at an object distance, calculating a set of indicia of image quality, each indicium of the set of indicia corresponding to an object in the series of objects when it is imaged by a given one of the plurality of eye optical systems, B.) at the object distance, comparing the set of indicia to a threshold to determine a just-discernable object size for the given one of the plurality of eye optical systems, and C.) repeating steps A and B for each eye optical system in the plurality of eye optical systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated
    Inventors: Amanda C. Kingston, Paul D. Ludington, Richard Potvin
  • Fully polymerized UV blocking silicone hydrogel lens
    Patent number: 9075187
    Abstract: A substantially fully copolymerized UV blocking hydrogel lens demonstrating sufficient blocking of UV light to meet at least FDA Class II specifications for UV blocking formed from a reaction mixture comprising at least NVP and one other comonomer and a free-radical polymerizable, substituted or unsubstituted, Bis O-hydroxy benzophenone is provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated
    Inventors: Ivan M. Nunez, Jennifer Hunt
  • LIGHT ABSORBING COMPOUNDS FOR OPTICAL POLYMERS
    Publication number: 20150175732
    Abstract: An optical polymeric material that can substantially block the transmission of ultraviolet light as well as selected portion of violet light. The polymeric material will include monomeric units of one or more lens monomers, and monomeric units of a monomer of formula (I).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated
    Inventors: Alok Kumar Awasthi, David P. Vanderbilt, Richard Meng
  • Ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable groups comprising polycarbosiloxane monomers
    Patent number: 9039174
    Abstract: The present application relates to novel monomers comprising polycarbosiloxane monomers useful in certain specific embodiments in the manufacture of devices. More particularly, the present application relates to certain ethylenically unsaturated free radical polymerizable monomers comprising polycarbosiloxane monomers. Even more particularly, the present application pertains to monomers comprising polycarbosiloxane monomers which further comprise at least two ethylenically unsaturated free radical polymerizable groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated
    Inventors: Alok Kumar Awasthi, Jay F. Kunzler
  • Contact lens care system with peroxide
    Patent number: 9011932
    Abstract: A contact lens disinfection system that includes a peroxide disinfection solution in combination with a lens closure. The disinfection solution comprises 0.5 wt. % to 6 wt. % hydrogen peroxide or a chemical precursor of hydrogen peroxide, and an amino buffer component. The closure includes securing elements to position and maintain a pair of contact lenses in the disinfection solution, and a peroxide neutralization catalyst comprising platinum. In combination with the closure, the disinfection solution exhibits a pseudo first-order, half-life of hydrogen peroxide over an initial sixty minutes of neutralization from 12 minutes to 30 minutes in the lens closure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated
    Inventor: Kimberly A. Millard
  • Method and system of measuring toric lens axis angle
    Patent number: 8999209
    Abstract: A method of measuring an axis angle of a toric contact lens including a posterior toric central zone having a cylindrical axis, and an anterior lens surface forming a ballast that has an axis of orientation offset from the cylindrical axis at a selected rotational angle is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated
    Inventor: Trevor F. O'Neill
  • Ophthalmic surgical cassettes for ophthalmic surgery
    Patent number: 8998864
    Abstract: An ophthalmic surgical cassette for collecting aspirant fluid and/or tissue during an ophthalmic surgical procedure. The ophthalmic surgical cassette includes a rigid walled container having an interior volume for collecting aspirant fluid and/or tissue and an aspiration manifold coupled to the rigid walled container. The aspiration manifold is connected to an aspiration tube in fluidic communication with the interior volume, a first aspiration line for coupling a first surgical handpiece, a second aspiration line for coupling a second surgical handpiece, and a reflux bulb in fluidic communication with the first and second aspiration lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated
    Inventors: James T. Perkins, Toh Seng Goh, David Hertweck
  • Use of an optical system simulating behavior of human eye to generate retinal images and an image quality metric to evaluate same
    Patent number: 9001316
    Abstract: A method of predicting clinical performance of an ophthalmic optical correction using simulation by imaging a series of objects of different sizes by each of a plurality of eye optical systems, each of the eye optical systems including the ophthalmic optical correction, the method providing an output value representing the resolution and contrast performance of the optical design at that vergence for the eye optical systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated
    Inventors: Nishant Mohan, Paul David Ludington, Ian G. Cox, Amanda Kingston
  • Method of preparing water extractable silicon-containing biomedical devices
    Patent number: 8967799
    Abstract: A method of preparing a water extractable silicon-containing biomedical device is disclosed. The method involves curing a monomer mixture comprising one or more silicon-containing biomedical device-forming monomers in the presence of a diluent to produce a silicon-containing biomedical device; wherein the diluent comprises a boric acid ester of a C1 to C8 monohydric alcohol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated
    Inventors: Ivan M. Nunez, Joseph A. McGee, Jay Friedrich Kunzler, Michele Alton, Analuz Changano, Jennifer Hunt
  • IOL injector comprising a moveable side wall
    Patent number: 8961601
    Abstract: An injector for inserting an intraocular lens (IOL) into an eye, comprising: a first side wall and a second side wall which are movable relative to one another, each side wall including a void, the voids positioned opposite one another in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the injector. The injector may be in a combination with the IOL, the IOL disposed on a portion of the injector. The IOL may be in an unstressed state. A first portion of a haptic of the IOL may extend into the void in the first side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated
    Inventors: Graham W. Biddle, Jon P. Cullen, Emin Engin
  • Compositions and methods for treating, reducing, ameliorating, or preventing infections caused by antibacterial drug-resistant bacteria
    Patent number: 8937062
    Abstract: Compositions comprise a fluoroquinolone having Formulae I-VIII for treating, reducing, ameliorating, or preventing infections caused by some bacteria that are resistant to an antibacterial drug. Methods for treating, reducing, ameliorating, or preventing such infections use such compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated
    Inventors: Praveen Tyle, Pramod Kumar Gupta, Susan E. Norton, Lynne Brunner, Joseph Blondeau
  • Peroxide contact lens care solution
    Patent number: 8932646
    Abstract: A contact lens disinfecting solution that comprises 0.5 wt. % to 6 wt. % hydrogen peroxide, or a chemical precursor of hydrogen peroxide, and a P-metal modulating compound. The presence of the P-metal modulating compound in the disinfecting hydrogen peroxide solution slows the rate at which the hydrogen peroxide is neutralized, particularly during the initial two hours, by a catalyst element that includes a P-metal. This reduction in rate of peroxide neutralization provides a more effective solution for killing certain microorganisms and fungi.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated
    Inventors: Kimberly Anne Millard, Erning Xia, Suzanne F. Groemminger, Jenilee Kilbury
  • Method and apparatus for determining depth of focus of an eye optical system
    Patent number: 8931900
    Abstract: A device for measuring depth of field of an eye optical system that includes a lens Badal having positive optical power, a positioning apparatus adapted to maintain the eye optical system on the image side of the lens at a first focal plane of the lens and a multi-vergency target that provides a plurality of objects that are simultaneously viewable, through the lens, by the eye optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated
    Inventors: Ming Lai, Ian G. Cox, Paul D. Ludington