Patents Examined by DaWayne Pinkney
  • Patent number: 12042226
    Abstract: A method of screening a pupil of a subject to determine whether the pupil reflex resembles a canonical pupil reflex is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of stimulating the pupil with a stimulus source, such as a pupilometer and determining whether one of various pupillary response conditions is met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Neuroptics, Inc.
    Inventors: Claudio Privitera, Kamran Siminou
  • Patent number: 12032263
    Abstract: Some embodiments are directed to a light modulator comprising transparent substrates, or a transparent substrate and a reflective or partially reflective substrate, multiple electrodes being applied to the substrates in a pattern across the substrate. A controller may apply an electric potential to the electrodes to obtain an electro-magnetic field between the electrodes providing electrophoretic movement of the particles towards or from an electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: ELSTAR DYNAMICS PATENTS B.V.
    Inventors: Romaric Mathieu Massard, Steven Van Mullekom
  • Patent number: 12016631
    Abstract: A system for visualization of eye anatomy includes at least one camera having a view vector along a first axis when in a first position, a housing to which the camera is coupled, wherein the housing engages the head of a patient such that the camera is positioned adjacent a patient's eye, and an actuator that moves the camera from the first position to a second position with a view vector along a second axis that is offset from the first axis. A method of visualization of eye anatomy includes engaging a patient's head with a housing, positioning at least one camera coupled to the housing adjacent an eye, wherein the camera has a view vector along a first axis when in a first position, and moving the camera to a second position with a view vector along a second axis offset from the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Sanovas Intellectual Property, LLC
    Inventors: Lawrence J. Gerrans, Charles N. Wang
  • Patent number: 12013596
    Abstract: The present disclosure embodiment may disclose a glasses. The glasses may include a glasses frame and two speakers. The glasses frame may include a glasses rim and two glasses temples. The two glasses temples may be rotatably connected to the glasses rim, respectively. The two speakers may be connected to the two glasses temples via hinge components of the two glasses temples, respectively. The hinge components may be rotatable to change a position of each of the speakers relative to one of the glasses temples. The two speakers may include an earphone core and an earphone housing. The earphone housing may include a housing panel facing a human body and a housing back opposite to the housing panel. At least one of the glasses temples may include a control circuit or a battery. The control circuit or the battery may drive the earphone core to vibrate to generate sound. A vibration of the earphone core may result in vibrations of the housing panel and the housing back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yueqiang Wang, Haofeng Zhang
  • Patent number: 12013598
    Abstract: Provided is an eyeglass lens 1 configured to cause rays that have entered from an object-side surface 3 to be emitted from an eyeball-side surface 4 and cause the emitted rays to converge at a predetermined position A. The eyeglass lens 1 includes a lens base material 2 having a plurality of base material convex portions 6 on at least one of the object-side surface 3 and the eyeball-side surface 4, and a coating film covering the surface provided with the base material convex portions 6, in which convex portions present on the outermost surface of the eyeglass lens 1 located on a side on which the base material convex portions 6 are provided and the base material convex portions 6 have common light ray convergence properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Hua Qi, Takako Ishizaki, Shigetoshi Kono
  • Patent number: 12001603
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and techniques directed to detecting a user's gaze and using millimeter electromagnetic waves to actuate a focus system of a contact lens worn by the user. The described systems and techniques include a contact lens (108) having a focus system (222) and contact lens circuitry (226) that includes transceiver circuitry (228), logic circuitry (230), and memory circuitry (232). The memory circuitry (232) stores instructions of a focus manager application (234) that, when executed by the logic circuitry (230), directs the contact lens (108) to actuate the focus system (222) in response to receiving a signal (110) having a millimeter wave (114).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Sean Patrick Korphi, Mohammad Reza Ghajar, Fei He
  • Patent number: 12002568
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to analyzing effect of a secondary cognitive load task on a primary executive task. Human random sequence generation is a marker to study cognitive functions and inability to generate random sequences (RS) can reveal underlying impairments. Traditionally, ‘call out’ or ‘write down’ procedures are used to obtain human generated numbers, wherein short term memory and number of previously generated entities visible to a subject plays a major role. Also precise trial-wise or response-wise analysis may not be possible. In the present disclosure, the human generated random numbers are digitized into RS and a cognitive load (CL) inducing task is imposed on the executive task. The CL demanding task disrupts randomization performance. Deviation from randomness, load index based on gaze data and deviation from pupillometry data of healthy subjects are provided as indicators of an interference effect imposed by the CL and thereby indicative of underlying impairments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Rahul Dasharath Gavas, Debatri Chatterjee, Aniruddha Sinha, Sanjoy Kumar Saha
  • Patent number: 11994705
    Abstract: An optical device includes a lightguide having a first pair of external surfaces parallel to each other, and at least two sets of facets. Each of the sets including a plurality of partially reflecting facets parallel to each other, and between the first pair of external surfaces. In each of the sets of facets, the respective facets are at an oblique angle relative to the first pair of external surfaces, and at a non-parallel angle relative to another of the sets of facets. The optical device is particularly suited for optical aperture expansion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: LUMUS LTD.
    Inventors: Yochay Danziger, Elad Sharlin
  • Patent number: 11974810
    Abstract: An imaging system for generating an image of a region of an eye, comprising: an ocular imaging device controlled by a control module to acquire, from a first viewpoint, a first ocular image of the region having an image artefact caused by obstruction from imaging of a part of the region by an object, and a second ocular image from a predetermined second viewpoint, which shows at least a portion of the part of the region that was obstructed from imaging during acquisition of the first ocular image; and an image data processing module for combining the first and second ocular images to generate an enhanced ocular image having an image artefact caused by obstruction from imaging by the object which is smaller in relation to the image artefact in the first or second ocular image, or no such image artefact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Optos Plc
    Inventor: Daniel Hurst
  • Patent number: 11971614
    Abstract: A contact lens comprises a variable focal length lens embedded within the contact lens and a plurality of oxygen channels extending from an oxygen-permeable outer layer of the contact lens to an oxygen-permeable inner layer of the contact lens. The variable focal length lens is embedded within a non-oxygen-permeable core layer of the contact lens. The contact lens comprises a controller configured to change the operating mode of the contact lens by adjusting the focal distance of the variable focal length lens, for instance in response to an input from a user or in response to determining that the user is looking at a nearby object. For instance, the controller can configure the contact lens to operate in a reading mode or in a normal focus mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Tectus Corporation
    Inventor: Brian Elliot Lemoff
  • Patent number: 11972592
    Abstract: A method comprises: capturing, with an image sensor, at least one image of a head of a user, wherein the at least one image includes an image of an eye of the user; processing the at least one image to obtain position information for features of the head and eye of the user; and determining, based on the position information for the features of the head and eye of the user, at least one parameter of a daily use eyewear frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Innovega, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Legerton, Jay Marsh
  • Patent number: 11971554
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for the see through computer display systems. In embodiments, the systems and methods use curved display panels to generate image light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
    Inventor: John D Haddick
  • Patent number: 11969210
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and apparatus for making a determination about an eye comprising detecting light reflected out of an eye of a subject from a retina of the eye of the subject and making a determination about the eye of the subject based upon the reflected light, wherein the light is adjusted for color temperature when making the determination about the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Ohio State Innovation Foundation
    Inventor: Melissa Bailey
  • Patent number: 11966140
    Abstract: The embodiments herein relate to electrochromic stacks, electrochromic devices, and methods and apparatus for making such stacks and devices. In various embodiments, an anodically coloring layer in an electrochromic stack or device is fabricated to include nickel tungsten tantalum oxide (NiWTaO). This material is particularly beneficial in that it is very transparent in its clear state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: View, Inc.
    Inventors: Dane Gillaspie, Sridhar K. Kailasam, Robert T. Rozbicki
  • Patent number: 11966098
    Abstract: A modular lens system for use with a camera system and connected therewith. The lens system including modular sections configured to include one or more lenses and/or an aperture. The one or more lenses are controlled by one or more motors to enhance focus, softness, and/or size and other optical characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Panavision International, L.P.
    Inventors: David William Macintosh, Daniel Keith Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11960188
    Abstract: The embodiments herein relate to electrochromic stacks, electrochromic devices, and methods and apparatus for making such stacks and devices. In various embodiments, an anodically coloring layer in an electrochromic stack or device is fabricated to include nickel-tungsten-niobium-oxide (NiWNbO). This material is particularly beneficial in that it is very transparent in its clear state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: View, Inc.
    Inventors: Dane Gillaspie, Sridhar K. Kailasam, Robert T. Rozbicki
  • Patent number: 11950848
    Abstract: An example system for microvascular assessment of a patient can include: a fundus imaging device including: a camera configured to capture one or more images of an eye of the patient; and at least one light source; and a microvascular assessment computing device including: a processor; and memory encoding instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the system to: activate the light source to direct light at a fundus of the eye of the patient; capture, with the camera, one or more images of the fundus of the patient, the fundus comprising a plurality of blood vessels; and analyze with the microvascular assessment computing device, the one or more images to determine a microvasculature health index for the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Welch Allyn, Inc.
    Inventors: Stacey A. Fitzgibbons, Allen R. Hart, David L. Ribble, Craig M. Meyerson, Heather Whitt, Gene J. Wolfe
  • Patent number: 11947120
    Abstract: A head-worn see-through display includes a display panel adapted to generate image content light, a combiner adapted to reflect the image content light towards an eye of a user, wherein the combiner transmits scene light from a surrounding environment to the eye of the user, and an image expansion optic intermediate the display panel and the combiner. The image expansion optic includes a flat partially reflective and partially reflective surface (the “flat surface”), a curved partially reflective and partially reflective surface (the “curved surface”), and the flat surface adapted to reflect the image content light towards the curved surface and the curved surface adapted to reflect the image light back towards the flat surface, wherein the image light transmits through the flat surface towards the combiner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
    Inventors: John D. Haddick, Jean-Claude David Ramey De Sugny
  • Patent number: 11931104
    Abstract: A system and method of assessing vision quality of an eye is presented, with a controller having a processor and tangible, non-transitory memory on which instructions are recorded. The controller is configured to selectively execute at least one machine learning model. Execution of the instructions by the processor causes the controller to: receive wavefront aberration data of the eye and express the wavefront aberration data as a collection of Zernike polynomials. The controller is configured to obtain a plurality of input factors based on the collection of Zernike polynomials. The plurality of input factors is fed into the at least one machine learning model, which is trained to analyze the plurality of input factors. The machine learning model generates at least one vision correction factor based in part on the plurality of input factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Ramesh Sarangapani, Mark VonTress
  • Patent number: 11927829
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes first through seventh lenses. The first lens includes positive refractive power, the second lens includes a positive refractive power, the third lens includes a negative refractive power, an object-side surface thereof being convex, the fourth lens includes a positive refractive power, the fifth lens includes a negative refractive power, the sixth lens includes a negative refractive power, and the seventh lens includes a negative refractive power and having an inflection point formed on an image-side surface thereof. The first to seventh lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side toward an imaging plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Il Yong Park