Patents Examined by Darryl J. Collins
  • Patent number: 12270996
    Abstract: An electronic loupe (400) features a view piece (401) mounted to a headpiece (405) by a linkage (406). A camera (402) and LED light (403) are mounted (404) in front of the view piece (401) to provide an image in the view piece (401) on displays (not shown) for the user. A control box (410) may be wired to the electronic loupe, or wirelessly connected, or the controls for the electronic loupe may reside on the view piece (401) and the headpiece (405). Other controls, such as a remote control or a foot pedal, are also disclosed. Illumination controls and location are designed for ideal illumination along various spectra. Automatic recording and documentation is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Inventor: Densen Cao
  • Patent number: 12271054
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an imaging optical lens assembly, including, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with negative refractive power having an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, a second lens element with positive refractive power, a third lens element with negative refractive power, a fourth lens element with positive refractive power, and a fifth lens element with negative refractive power having an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region and at least one convex shape in an off-axial region on the image-side surface, wherein the imaging optical lens assembly has a total of five lens elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuan-Ming Chen, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 12268652
    Abstract: A method for preventing or limiting the progression the myopia includes: providing a soft contact lens. The contact lens includes: a solid polymeric component, which is provided for conferring shape and structure on the contact lens and a liquid component which is distributed in the solid component, and which comprises tyrosine, at a concentration between 1 and 200 mg/l. The method further includes putting the soft contact lens on an eye of a patient so as to apply the compound on the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Cataltheia Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Alessandro Filippo
  • Patent number: 12271059
    Abstract: A contact lens and a method for treating an eye with myopia is described. The contact lens includes an inner optic zone and an outer optic zone. The outer optic zone includes at least a portion with a first power, selected to correct distance vision. The inner optic zone has a relatively more positive power (and add power). In some embodiments the add power is substantially constant across the inner optic zone. In other embodiments the add power is variable across the inner optic zone. While in some embodiments the inner optic zone has a power designed to substantially eliminate lag of accommodation in the eye with myopia, in other embodiments, the add power may be higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Brien Holden Vision Institute Limited
    Inventors: Brien Anthony Holden, Gregor Schmid, Padmaja Rajagopal Sankaridurg, Arthur Ho, Aldo Abraham Martinez Magos, Percy Fabian Lazon, Earl Leo Smith, III
  • Patent number: 12265206
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power and a second lens unit having a positive refractive power. A distance between adjacent lens units changes during zooming. The first lens unit includes two cemented lenses and each of the two cemented lenses includes a positive lens. Predetermined conditions are satisfied by the zoom lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenta Sudo, Masakazu Kodaira
  • Patent number: 12259275
    Abstract: Provided is a control device for controlling a Fabry-Perot interference filter having a pair of mirror parts and a pair of driving electrodes. The control device includes: a first driving source that is controlled by using a current as a control parameter, and changes the distance between the pair of mirror parts; a second driving source that is controlled by using a voltage as a control parameter, and changes the distance; and a control unit that controls the first driving source and the second driving source in such a way that the distance is changed by a first driving source in a first region and the distance is changed by the second driving source in at least one part of an region other than the first region when an region including a maximum of the voltage is defined as the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Peter Seitz, Helmut Teichmann, Katsumi Shibayama, Takashi Kasahara
  • Patent number: 12259596
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an ophthalmic lens with an extended depth of field including an optical unit that includes a first surface and a second surface both centered by an optical axis and opposite to each other. At least one of the first and second surfaces is defined by a superposition of a base sag profile and a feature sag profile and includes in sequence a first zone, a second zone, and a third zone along a radial direction away from the optical axis. The first zone is designed as a freeform surface zone, and the second zone is designed as a phase transition zone. The ophthalmic lens enables patients to acquire a continuous range of vision from intermediate to far distances and also optimizes their far vision without visual interference, such that the resulting far vision correction is equivalent to that of existing monofocal ophthalmic lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: MDCO TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Xin Wei
  • Patent number: 12259533
    Abstract: A lens, wherein a first profile in a first direction intersecting an optical axis and a second profile in a second direction intersecting the optical axis are different from each other, and a length of the first profile in the first direction is different from a length of the second profile in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Hyuk Huh, Yong Joo Jo, Young Suk Kang, Phil Ho Jung
  • Patent number: 12253746
    Abstract: A small integrated free space circulator, comprising a first polarizing beam splitter (1), a half-wave plate (2), a Faraday rotating plate (3), a beam splitter (4), a quarter-wave plate (5), and a pair of reflective plates (6, 7), wherein the first polarizing beam splitter (1), the half-wave plate (2), the Faraday rotating plate (3), and the beam splitter (4) are sequentially arranged, the quarter-wave plate (5) and the reflective plate (6) are sequentially attached to a side surface of the first polarizing beam splitter (1) adjacent to the half-wave plate (2), and the reflective plate (7) is arranged on a side surface of the beam splitter (4, 8) adjacent to or opposite to the Faraday rotating plate (3); when the reflective plate (7) is arranged on the side surface of the beam splitter (8) opposite to the Faraday rotating plate (3), the reflective plate (7) partially covers the side surface of the beam splitter (8) opposite to the Faraday rotating plate (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: II-VI DELAWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Xi Zheng, Guanglong Yu, Xu Jia, Haifeng Chen, Ce Ren
  • Patent number: 12253695
    Abstract: The invention relates to a diffractive optical element with a spatial variation in the refractive index, wherein a sequence of adjacent sections, which form a diffractive structure, is formed by the spatial variation in the refractive index, within which sections the refractive index varies in each case. Over a spectral range extending over at least 300 nm, the diffractive structure has a diffraction efficiency of at least 0.95, averaged over the entire spectral range. The value of the diffraction efficiency of at least 0.95, averaged over the entire spectral range, is realized by a single single-layer diffractive structure with an optimized combination of at least two refractive indices and at least two Abbe numbers within each section of the sequence of adjacent sections. The refractive index variation can be achieved by means of doping, material mixing, or structuring into sub-wavelength ranges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss AG
    Inventors: Daniel Werdehausen, Manuel Decker
  • Patent number: 12248202
    Abstract: The invention relates to filter dedicated to protect eye cone cells and method associated. The eye cone cells protecting filter is intended to be applied to a transparent surface and to filter incident light for preventing eye cone cells of a user, from damages due to illumination at physiological light levels on the eye of said user, and having spectral characteristics to i) filter light wavelengths between 405 and 465 nanometers, and ii) transmit a filtered light reaching the eye cone cells and having a harmfulness on said eye cone cells under a predefined maximum threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignees: Essilor International, Sorbonne Université
    Inventors: Mélanie Marie, Serge Picaud, Valérie Fradot, José Sahel, Thierry Villette, Coralie Barrau, Camille Ehrismann
  • Patent number: 12242023
    Abstract: Polarization-insensitive metasurfaces using anisotropic nanostructures are disclosed. These anisotropic structures allow for an accurate implementation of phase, group delay, and group delay dispersion, while simultaneously making it possible to realize a polarizationinsensitive, diffraction-limited and achromatic metalens for wavelength, e.g., ?=from about 460 nm to about 700 nm. The approach of polarization-insensitivity can be also applied for other metasurface devices with applications in, e.g., imaging and virtual or augmented reality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
    Inventors: Wei-Ting Chen, Alexander Yutong Zhu, Federico Capasso
  • Patent number: 12242136
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes an optical system including at least six lenses, sequentially disposed from an object side toward an image side, an image sensor configured to convert light incident through the optical system into an electronic signal, and a variable stop configured to change an incident hole diameter and disposed toward the object side of a lens of the optical system closest to the object side, wherein TTL is a distance to an imaging plane of the image sensor from an object-side surface of the lens closest to the object side and 4.7 mm<TTL<6.00 mm, and wherein Ri is a radius of curvature of an object-side surface of a lens of the optical system second closest to the image sensor, Rj is a radius of curvature of an image-side surface of the lens that is second closest to the image sensor, and ?0.5<(|Ri|?|Rj|)/(|Ri|+|Rj|)<0.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Hyuk Huh, Jae Hyun Baik, Yong Joo Jo
  • Patent number: 12242079
    Abstract: A light diffraction element, that has cells, includes first regions and second regions. Each of the cells comprises one of the first regions and one of the second regions. Each of the first regions has a thickness or a refractive index that is independently set. The second regions have a uniform thickness or a uniform refractive index. The first regions allow first polarized components of signal light to pass through. The second regions allow second polarized components of signal light to pass through. The second polarized components are different, in polarization direction, from the first polarized components. The light diffraction element performs optical computing by causing the first polarized components of signal light that have passed through the first regions to interfere with each other. The first polarized components of signal light output from the light diffraction element indicate information after the optical computing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kusaka, Masahiro Kashiwagi
  • Patent number: 12242139
    Abstract: The stabilized contact lens methods and apparatus disclosed herein provide improved stabilization of a contact lens placed on a cornea of an eye. The contact lens comprises stabilization zones that allow the lens to repeatedly and consistently orient on the cornea such that a sensing zone located on the lower portion of the lens is located inferiorly to engage the lower eyelid. The stabilized contact lens can provide a lower pressure sensing zone with decreased thickness for pressure or other sensing related to the lower eyelid. The decreased thickness has the advantage of improving coupling between forces from an eyelid and a lower chamber of a fluidic module. The improved coupling allows increased amounts of fluid to move between the lower chamber and an upper optical chamber coupled to the lower chamber, such that the upper chamber can increase curvature and optical power in response to pressures of the eyelid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: OneFocus Vision, Inc.
    Inventors: Rick Payor, Stephane Gobron, Ben Lubberman, Steve Waite
  • Patent number: 12242050
    Abstract: A deformable mirror device has a flexible layer with a front surface that forms a mirror surface or to which a mirror layer forming mirror surface is attached. The flexible layer consists homogeneously of a first material. Protrusions extend from the back surface of the flexible layer. The protrusions consist homogeneously of the first material or a material with substantially the same thermal expansion coefficient. A plurality actuators are coupled to the protrusions and via the protrusions to the flexible layer, to deform the flexible layer. The flexible layer and the protrusions may be part of an integral body of the first material, or bonded to the flexible layer. The distal end of each protrusion has a curved surface that at least partly has a spherical shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO
    Inventors: Stefan Kuiper, Jan Roelof Nijenhuis
  • Patent number: 12235511
    Abstract: An adapter includes a hollow adapter body, a rotating ring connected to a second side of the adapter body, and at least three sliding connecting pieces. The rotating ring includes at least two rotating ring guide grooves corresponding to each sliding connecting piece. The adapter body includes at least two adapter body guide grooves corresponding to each sliding connecting piece. Each sliding connecting piece includes a connecting portion. When each sliding connecting piece moves along the corresponding at least two rotating ring guide grooves and the corresponding at least two adapter body guide grooves, configuration of the rotating ring guide grooves and the adapter body guide grooves make connecting portions move away from or close to the rotating ring in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the rotating ring and form a circumferential distribution, so as to match and connect with camera lenses having different apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Inventor: Yinling Leung
  • Patent number: 12235441
    Abstract: A contact lens, intended to be worn on the eye of a person, for automatically aiming in the direction of the eye. The contact lens includes:—a membrane suitable for covering the pupil and the iris of the eye;—at least two light sources encapsulated in the membrane, each suitable for emitting a light beam whose divergence is controlled in relation to the axis of the lens;—at least one interface for collecting and supplying electrical energy to the light sources, from outside the lens;—at least one electronic circuit suitable for activating the sources from the interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: INSTITUT MINES TELECOM
    Inventors: Jean-Louis De Bougrenet, Vincent Nourrit, Cyril Lahuec, Fabrice Seguin, Francesco Ferranti, Thierry Djenizian
  • Patent number: 12235524
    Abstract: A lens including a flexible refractive optic having a fixed refractive index, an electro-active element embedded within the flexible refractive optic, wherein the electro-active element has an alterable refractive index, and a controller electrically connected to the electro-active element wherein when power is applied thereto the refractive index of the electro-active element is altered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: e-Vision Smart Optics, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald D. Blum, Joshua N. Haddock, William Kokonaski, John D. Hunkeler
  • Patent number: 12235416
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an optical imaging system. The optical imaging system comprises, sequentially along an optical axis from an object side to an image side, a stop; a first lens, having a positive refractive power; a second lens, having a refractive power; a third lens, having a refractive power; a fourth lens, having a negative refractive power, an object-side surface of the fourth lens is a convex surface; a fifth lens, having a negative refractive power; a sixth lens, having a refractive power; and a seventh lens, having a refractive power. Here, one of the first to seventh lenses is an aspheric lens made of glass, and a radius of curvature R2 of an image-side surface of the first lens and a radius of curvature R1 of an object-side surface of the first lens satisfy: 2.5?(R2+R1)/R2?R1)<3.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Zhejiang Sunny Optical Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yang Li, Lingbo He, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao