Patents Examined by James R Greece
  • Patent number: 11614639
    Abstract: Disclosed is a multi-ring multi-focal-length single-ring inner wavy lens. The lens comprises a main lens area and a concentric circular ring area. The concentric circular ring area comprises a plurality of circular rings, the plurality of circular rings are concentrically distributed with the center of the lens as the center, the width of an annulus between every two adjacent circular rings gradually increases from inside to outside, and the circular rings each are of a wavy structure. Each wavy structure comprises peaks and valleys, the diopter of a position where each peak is located is greater than that of the main lens area, and the diopter of a position where each valley is located is smaller than that of the main lens area. The lens disclosed by the present disclosure can provide a plurality of focus regions to enhance the fitness of human eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: JIANGSU RARE OPTICS CO., LTD
    Inventor: Jiantai Dou
  • Patent number: 11612479
    Abstract: Methods and systems wherein laser induced refractive index changes by focused femtosecond laser pulses in optical polymeric materials or optical tissues is performed to address various types of vision correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: University of Rochester
    Inventors: Leonard Zheleznyak, Scott Catlin
  • Patent number: 11609437
    Abstract: Configuring ophthalmic lenses that reduce oblique aberrations based on a wearer's accommodative demand values is disclosed. The accommodative demand values include A_(rel?) and A_(rel+) depend on object vergence L. The accommodative demand values are considered to and ensure no or reduced eye strain to the wearer. An improved merit function ?? is calculated based on the accommodative demand values. In the calculation, accommodative term A is a smooth and continuous function of both the object distance L and the spherical component of the power error. This ensures the accommodative demand values are well below maximum relative accommodations available to the wearer to prevent eye fatigue. The calculation may also include a smooth and continuous thresholding function ƒ that optimizes the merit function. The calculation may also include evaluation of the power error associated with various object vergencies for every direction of sight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Inventors: Eva Chamorro, José Miguel Cleva, Claudia Irazusta, Eduardo Pascual, José Alonso Fernández
  • Patent number: 11609438
    Abstract: An ocular lens may include a lens body including a first surface. The first surface may include a first zone including a plurality of friction reduction structures arranged in alignment with the movement of a user's upper eyelid during blinking. The first surface may also include a second zone including a plurality of friction reduction structures arranged in alignment with the movement of a user's lower eyelid during blinking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Menicon Singapore Pte Ltd.
    Inventor: Stephen D. Newman
  • Patent number: 11598977
    Abstract: A lens, system for designing, computer program for designing and a method for designing, with a computer, a progressive addition lens including a distance vision region, a near vision region, and an intermediate vision region, wherein a power gradually changes between the distance vision region and the near vision region, and wherein the progressive addition lens is based on prescription data, the method including: determining a transmission astigmatic performance parameter corresponding to a sum of a prescribed astigmatism included in the prescription data and of a predetermined amount of extra astigmatism; determining lens surface data corresponding to the determined transmission performance parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Asami, Yasunori Izawa
  • Patent number: 11590790
    Abstract: An optical product can reproduce a first 3D image of at least part of a first 3D object and a second 3D image of at least part of a second 3D object. The optical product comprises a surface configured, when illuminated, to reproduce by reflected or transmitted light, the first 3D image without reproducing the second 3D image at a first angle of view, and the second 3D image without reproducing the first 3D image at a second angle of view. Each portion of first portions can correspond to a point on a surface of the first 3D object, and comprise first non-holographic features configured to produce at least part of the first 3D image. Each portion of second portions can correspond to a point on a surface of the second 3D object, and comprise second non-holographic features configured to produce at least part of the second 3D image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: WAVEFRONT TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Chapman Rich, Joel Mikael Petersen, John Michael Tamkin, Roger Winston Phillips, Phillip Christopher Harvey
  • Patent number: 11576575
    Abstract: A hand-held sized ocular and neurological screening device, system and method, the screening device comprising an eyepiece and a hand-held housing, the housing comprising a tubular stimulus chamber defining a light stimulus channel, wherein an illumination source is configured to provide light stimulus towards an opening through the light stimulus channel and an operational chamber comprising an infrared camera positioned outside the stimulus channel and inclined towards the opening, the infrared camera is configured to capture images of the pupils and eye movements through the opening without interfering with the light stimulus and a controller configured to receive the captured images from the infrared camera. The hand-held sized device can include a clip-on fixture for fixing the device onto a table, a desktop, or any portable ophthalmic apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SINGAPORE HEALTH SERVICES PTE LTD
    Inventors: Dan Milea, Raymond Najjar, Tin Aung
  • Patent number: 11576574
    Abstract: Method and contact lens (3) for measuring a subject's three dimensional eye movement including torsional movement. A video camera (1) is provided for recording an image of the subject's eye (2). The contact lens (3) is provided for placement over the subject's eye (2). The contact lens (3) comprises one or more markers (3a,3b) that are detectable by the video camera (1) and are positioned at a lateral offset (D) with respect to a central part (3p) of the contact lens (3). The one or more markers (3a,3b) are configured for detecting torsional rotation (R) of the subject's eye (2) around a line of sight axis (C) of the subject's eye (2) by using the video camera (1) to track a position of the one or more markers (3a,3b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam
    Inventors: Johannes van der Steen, Johannes Jacob Mient Pel, Jochem Jesse Visser
  • Patent number: 11579407
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an optical imaging lens assembly including, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens having refractive power; a second lens having refractive power; and a third lens having refractive power. A distance BFL along the optical axis from an image-side surface of the third lens of the optical imaging lens assembly to an imaging plane of the optical imaging lens assembly and a distance Td along the optical axis from an object-side surface of the first lens to the image-side surface of the third lens satisfy: 4.5?BFL/Td?7.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Inventors: Kaiyuan Zhang, Yi Zhang, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 11579414
    Abstract: A photographing optical lens system includes seven lens elements, the seven lens elements being, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, and a seventh lens element. Each of the seven lens elements has an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an image-side surface facing toward the image side. At least one lens surface of the seven lens elements has at least one inflection point thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 11579472
    Abstract: A system and method for determining the measurements needed to fabricate prescription eyeglasses. A person is scanned with a time-of-flight scanner while wearing the eyeglass frames. This produces depth maps from known distances. Common measurement points are identified within at least some of the scans. The positional changes of the common measurement points and the known distance to the imaging camera are utilized to map three dimensional coordinates for the measurement points using an actual measurement scale. Fabrication measurements are calculated between the various three-dimensional coordinates in the same scale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Inventors: Bassem El-Hajal, Marco Lancione, Piotr Szymborski, Luc Jalbert
  • Patent number: 11567301
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of optical lenses and provides a camera optical lens sequentially including, from an object side to an image side: a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a negative refractive power; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; a sixth lens having a positive refractive power; and a seventh lens having a negative refractive power. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 2.80?v1/v2?4.50; and ?10.00?f3/f??3.00, where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens; f3 denotes a focal length of the third lens; and v1 and v2 denote abbe numbers of the first and second lenses, respectively. The camera optical lens according to the present invention can achieve high optical performance while satisfying design requirements for ultra-thin, wide-angle lenses having large apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: AAC Optics (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xuepeng Zhou
  • Patent number: 11567313
    Abstract: An annular optical component includes a plastic element and a metal element disposed on the plastic element. The plastic element includes a plastic part, and the metal element includes a metal part. The plastic part surrounds a central axis of the annular optical component so as to form a central opening. An outer annular surface and an inner annular surface of the annular optical component are opposite to each other. An object-side surface of the annular optical component faces an image-side direction of the annular optical component and is connected to the outer annular surface and the inner annular surface. An image-side surface of the annular optical component faces an image-side direction of the annular optical component and is connected to the outer annular surface and the inner annular surface. The image-side surface and the object-side surface are opposite to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming-Shun Chang, Yu-Jen Chiu, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 11561414
    Abstract: A method for determining an ophthalmic lens adapted to a wearer, the method including: receiving wearer data including at least the ophthalmic prescription of the wearer; receiving a set of object points associated with target optical performances based on the wearer data; determining an ophthalmic lens adapted to the wearer, the ophthalmic lens providing optical performances, for light rays propagating from the set of object points to the center of rotation of the eye of the wearer passing through the ophthalmic lens, the closest to the target optical performances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Mélanie Heslouis, Olivier Roussel, Laurent Calixte
  • Patent number: 11561416
    Abstract: An ophthalmic tinted glass (10) comprises a substrate-forming base eyeglass (1), a first layered structure (2) which covers a convex face (Cx) of the base eyeglass, and optionally a second layered structure (3) which covers a concave face (Cc) of the base eyeglass. The first layered structure has a function of selective reflection increase, and the second layered structure is antireflective. Such ophthalmic tinted glass produces solar protection while having a mean transmittance value in a wavelength range from 460 nm to 10 nm, or 465 nm to 495 nm, which is high enough for avoiding biological, hormonal and behavioural disorders for a wearer of the tinted glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Francisco De Ayguavives, Xiaohong Zhang, William Trottier-Lapointe
  • Patent number: 11561417
    Abstract: Provided herein is an improved polarized eyewear with selective light wavelength blocking and a method of making such polarized eyewear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Srinivasan Balasubramanian, Aref Jallouli
  • Patent number: 11556018
    Abstract: An ophthalmic multifocal lens, and a method of manufacturing same, at least comprising focal points for near, intermediate and far vision. The lens comprises a light transmissive lens body providing a refractive focal point, and a periodic light transmissive diffraction grating, extending concentrically over at least part of a surface of the lens body and providing a set of diffractive focal points. The diffraction grating is designed to operate as an optical wave splitter, the refractive focal point providing the focal point for intermediate vision and the diffractive focal points providing the focal points for near and far vision. The diffraction grating has an optical transfer function comprising a continuous periodic phase profile function having an argument modulated as a function of the radial distance (r) to the optical axis of the lens body, thereby tuning the light distribution in the focal points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: VSY BIYOTEKNOLOJI VE ILAÇ SAN. A.S.
    Inventors: Sven Thage Sigvard Holmström, Isa Çim, Hakan Urey
  • Patent number: 11550169
    Abstract: Active optical filter adapted for a spectacle lens, the active optical filter being configured so as to filter light radiations over at least one predetermined range of wavelengths, wherein the full width at half maximum of the filtering function of the optical filter is smaller than or equal to 100 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Coralie Barrau, Thierry Villette, Jean-Paul Cano, Samuel Archambeau, Claudine Biver
  • Patent number: 11546493
    Abstract: The finder includes, in order from an object side to an eye point side, a negative objective lens group, and a positive eyepiece lens group. The eyepiece lens group consists of, in order from the object side to the eye point side, a negative first lens, a positive second lens, and a negative third lens. During diopter adjustment, only the second lens moves. The finder satisfies a conditional expression determined in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shunsuke Miyagishima
  • Patent number: 11543683
    Abstract: Described are multifocal contact lenses that contain high energy visible (HEV) light absorbing compounds and their use for improving one or more vision attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Shivkumar Mahadevan, Dawn D. Wright, Ronald J. Clark, Thomas R. Karkkainen, Derek Nankivil