Patents Examined by Sharrief I Broome
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Patent number: 11762220Abstract: A multifocal ophthalmic lens wherein a first surface of the lens is shaped to form a surface power map and a second surface of the lens is shaped to form a second surface power map. The first surface power map and the second surface power map together form a lens power map. The first surface power map, the second surface power map, or the lens power map comprises a spiral. The spiral has a variation across at least a portion of the lens. Methods of making and using such lenses are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: COOPERVISION INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDInventors: Martin Webber, Percy Lazon de la Jara
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Patent number: 11762181Abstract: An optical apparatus for imaging a sample has a scanning apparatus having a laser energizable to direct an input beam of a first wavelength to a reflective scanner that is rotatable about an axis and a toroidal mirror surface that is symmetric about said axis and is disposed to direct scanned laser light of the first wavelength toward the sample in an arcuate scan pattern. A compensator in the path of the input beam is formed to correct one or more aberrations of the toroidal mirror surface. Telecentric collector optics define a collection path that conveys, to a detector, scanned light of a second wavelength that is excited from the scanned sample.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Kessler Optics and Photonics Solutions Ltd.Inventor: David Kessler
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Patent number: 11754814Abstract: There is provided an imaging lens with high-resolution which satisfies demand of the wide field of view, the low-profileness and the low F-number, and excellently corrects aberrations. An imaging lens comprises in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens having positive refractive power and a convex surface facing the object side near the optical axis, a second lens having negative refractive power near the optical axis, a third lens having the positive refractive power near the optical axis, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens having the negative refractive power and a concave surface facing the image side near the optical axis, wherein the image-side surface of said fifth lens is formed as an aspheric surface having at least one off-axial pole point, and predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: TOKYO VISIONARY OPTICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yukio Sekine, Masaya Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11754813Abstract: There is provided an imaging lens with high-resolution which satisfies demand of the wide field of view, the low-profileness and the low F-number, and excellently corrects aberrations. An imaging lens comprises in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens having positive refractive power and a convex surface facing the object side near the optical axis, a second lens having negative refractive power near the optical axis, a third lens having the positive refractive power near the optical axis, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens having the negative refractive power and a concave surface facing the image side near the optical axis, wherein the image-side surface of said fifth lens is formed as an aspheric surface having at least one off-axial pole point, and predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: TOKYO VISIONARY OPTICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yukio Sekine, Masaya Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11747649Abstract: A method for producing a coating on a surface of a coated or uncoated spectacle lens includes: applying a masking on a partial region of the surface of the coated or uncoated spectacle lens, applying at least one layer on the surface, and removing the masking and the at least one layer applied on the masking from the partial region of the surface. The masking is applied with a matrix printing method. A spectacle lens produced by the method is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventor: Jeremias Gromotka
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Patent number: 11730358Abstract: A lacrimal tear flow measurement device, and methods of manufacture and use, are described that includes a polymer microcapillary tube or similar structure having at least one end coated on the outside with soft silicone rubber and one end treated on the inside to be hydrophobic. The hydrophobic end keeps liquid from escaping or entering that end while allowing air to pass. The rest of the tube's insides may be hydrophilic or a neutral hydrophobe. As a Schirmer's test strip replacement, the entrance end of the device can be touched to the lacrimal lake of a patient's eye to collect suck up, or merely collect, tear fluid within the collection tube for weighing, volume measurement, or other analysis. Long-term collection devices for wear between doctors' visits can have a bypass channel allowing liquid to flow back onto the eye.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignees: California Institute of Technology, University of Southern CaliforniaInventors: Yu-Chong Tai, Nicholas E. Scianmarello, Mark S. Humayun
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Patent number: 11726235Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for an optical waveguide display configured for use with a near-eye display (NED) device. In an embodiment the waveguide display includes a light-transmissive substrate and an optical coupling element configured to input light rays to the substrate or output light rays from the substrate, the optical coupling element configured to deflect a plurality of wavelengths of an incident light ray collinearly for propagation within the light-transmissive substrate through total internal reflection (TIR). The optical coupling element can include a pattern of nano-structures that collectively form a metasurface on the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Eliezer Glik, Hagar Edelstain, Bernard C. Kress
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Patent number: 11723530Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for measuring a sensitivity level across a visual field of a subject defined by a set of locations.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2017Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: UCL BUSINESS LTDInventors: Haogang Zhu, David Garway-Heath, David Crabb, Marco Miranda
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Patent number: 11714251Abstract: An imaging lens assembly includes a plastic barrel and a lens element set. The lens element set is disposed in the plastic barrel and has an optical axis. The lens element set includes an object-side lens element and an image-side lens element. The object-side lens element has an outer diameter surface and an optical effective portion, and includes a conical-aligning surface located on an image-side surface of the object-side lens element and for coaxially aligning and connecting the image-side lens element.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.Inventors: Yeo-Chih Huang, Chun-Hua Tsai
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Patent number: 11712159Abstract: Methods and diagnostic tools are provided for assessing contrast sensitivity in a subject in the presence and absence of luminance noise by: i) presenting to the subject a series of scenes, each scene comprising at least a first target having a preselected level of contrast superimposed on a uniform background and a second target having a preselected level of contrast superimposed on a luminance noise background, wherein in each successively presented scene the first and second targets that are superimposed on the uniform background and on the luminance noise background, respectively, have contrast levels that are different from the contrast levels of the first and second targets superimposed on the uniform background and on the luminance noise background, respectively, in the previously presented scene; ii) monitoring responses by the subject to step i); and iii) evaluating the contrast sensitivity of the subject based on the monitored responses.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2018Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISInventor: James Jason McAnany
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Patent number: 11709377Abstract: Spinnable frames for spectacles are provided. A spinnable frame allows a user to hold a distal end of one of the temples and freely spin the remainder of the spectacles around that end of the temple. A spin joint is provided in at least one of the temples that allows this spinning action. The spin joint may span an interface between the distal end of the temple and a proximal end of the temple, the proximal end being coupled to a front portion of the frame at a hinge interface. In this way, the temple arm is allowed to fold against the front portion for compact storage, as with conventional eyeglass frames, while facilitating spinning of the spectacles in a way that avoids excess forces on the hinge interface and/or other portions of the frame or lenses mounted therein.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: WARBY PARKER INC.Inventors: James T. Fallon, Adam Mendelsohn
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Patent number: 11697055Abstract: A wearable training apparatus has a vision-control assembly and a head-mounting assembly coupled to the vision-control assembly. The vision-control assembly has a see-through area corresponding to a central portion of the human field of vision (FOV), and a vision-blocking area for blocking the human peripheral FOV except the central portion thereof. The wearable training apparatus may be in the form of a pair of eyeglasses with lenses provided with reduced FOV or alternatively, may be in the form of a goggle with reduced FOV. A training system may comprise one or more wearable training apparatus, one or more imaging devices for recording images and/or video streams of the performance of users wearing the training apparatuses, and one or more computing devices for playing back and analyzing the recorded images and/or video streams.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: 1241620 ALBERTA LTD.Inventor: Lyle Mast
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Patent number: 11698521Abstract: The present invention is an optical assembly featuring an architecture which allows adjustment of both objective lenses and the electronic sensing assemblies in the optical assembly. Electrical connections in the housings of the various subassemblies allow focusing adjustment by rotational and/or translational movement for increased adjustability.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2022Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Maranon, Inc.Inventor: James Thomas
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Patent number: 11684305Abstract: This invention is directed to a bio-potential electrode-set for measuring electrical signals during an electrooculogram (EOG) from a human, particularly to flexible self-adhesive bio-potential sensing electrode-set substrate specifically to cover the perimeter of the eyes for EOG recordings. In general, EOG is a technique for measuring the cornea-retinal standing potential that exists between the front and the back of the human eye. The resulting signal is called the electrooculogram. Primary applications include, but are not limited to, ophthalmological assessments that require recording eye movements or gaze tracking and human computer/machine interfaces.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2019Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Inventors: Seyedhesam Sadeghian-Motahar, Jerald H. Simmons
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Patent number: 11668906Abstract: An optical imaging lens assembly includes three lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element, a second lens element and a third lens element. Each of the three lens elements has an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an image-side surface facing toward the image side. The object-side surface of the first lens element is concave in a paraxial region thereof. The object-side surface of the first lens element is aspheric and has at least one inflection point. The object-side surface of the first lens element has at least one critical point in an off-axis region thereof. The optical imaging lens assembly has a total of three lens elements.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.Inventors: Yu Jui Lin, Tzu-Chieh Kuo
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Patent number: 11662604Abstract: Glasses have a groove provided in a vertical direction on a bridge of a glasses frame. A support section of a nose pad of the glasses is connected to an end portion of a positioning section of the nose pad, the positioning section is slidably disposed in the groove, and the positioning section has a plurality of locking slots and a limiting slot. An adjustment mechanism of the glasses is disposed at the glasses frame, and a pressing member of the adjustment mechanism is disposed perpendicular to the groove, where one end of the pressing member protrudes from one side of the groove, and the other end penetrates through the groove and the limiting slot. A positioning member of the adjustment mechanism is connected to the other end of the pressing member. The positioning member moves from a positioning position to a release position by pushing of the pressing member.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: PEGATRON CORPORATIONInventors: Mao-Hsiang Huang, Wei-Chih Hsu, Pen-Uei Lu
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Patent number: 11662562Abstract: A tunable filter may include an input focusing optic, an output focusing optic, a linearly-varying filter located at a back focal plane of the input focusing optic and a front focal plane of the output focusing optic, an input angular scanning component located at a front focal plane of the input focusing optic configured to receive an input beam, and an output angular scanning component located at a back focal plane of the output focusing optic. The input focusing optic may receive the input beam from the input angular scanning component and direct the input beam to the linearly-varying filter, where a position of the input beam on the linearly-varying filter is selectable based on an angle of the input angular scanning component. The output focusing optic may receive a filtered beam from the linearly-varying filter and direct the filtered beam to the output angular scanning component.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: KLA CorporationInventors: Andrew V. Hill, Avi Abramov, Amit Shaked, Valery Garmider
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Patent number: 11653829Abstract: A method of performing an optometric examination of a patient includes positioning the patient behind a phoropter; presenting visual stimuli to the patient using a computer-controlled device; recording the patient's response to the stimuli; automatically adjusting the settings of the phoropter to improve one or more characteristics of the patient's vision; and automatically determining the prescription for the refractive error correction for the patient.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Gareguin Mikaelian
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Patent number: 11650356Abstract: A high-performance optical absorber is provided having a texturized base layer. The base layer has one or more of a polymer film and a polymer coating. A surface layer is located above and immediately adjacent to the base layer and the surface layer joined to the base layer. The surface layer comprises a plasma-functionalized, non-woven carbon nanotube (CNT) sheet, wherein the base layer texturization comprises one or more of substantially rectangular ridges, substantially triangular ridges, substantially pyramidal ridges, and truncated, substantially pyramidal ridges. The CNT sheet has a thickness greater than or equal to 10×?, where ? is the wavelength of the incident light. In certain embodiments the base layer has a height above the surface layer greater than or equal to 10×?, where ? is the wavelength of the incident light.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: John A. Starkovich, Edward M. Silverman
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Patent number: 11642024Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus includes: a head unit having an optical system capable of receiving light reflected from a subject's eye; a drive mechanism that movably holds the head unit; an alignment detection unit that detects a position of the subject's eye relative to the head unit; and a control unit that controls the drive mechanism. The drive mechanism includes at least two arms rotatably connected together, at least two first rotation support mechanisms and at least three second rotation support mechanisms which allow the head unit to move, and at least five driving units for driving the rotation support mechanisms. The control unit is capable of controlling the driving units using a measurement result of the alignment measuring unit to align the head unit and the subject's eye with each other.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Topcon CorporationInventors: Shingo Ueno, Ryousuke Ito