Patents by Inventor Alain GOULET

Alain GOULET has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230408844
    Abstract: A method for determining a progression length of an ophthalmic lens, the method including providing an addition value Add, providing a model, the model linking an addition value Add with a progression length, and based on the model and on the provided addition value, determining the progression length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Essilor International
    Inventors: Olivier ROUSSEL, Carlos REGO, Alain GOULET, Mélanie HESLOUIS
  • Publication number: 20230314837
    Abstract: A method for determining the adaptation of a myopia control optical lens to a wearer, configured to provide simultaneously to the wearer a refractive optical function based on a prescription for the wearer and a myopia control function, the method includes providing an eye model, a visual environment, a myopia control optical lens model, and a reference frame and positioning the eye model, the myopia control optical lens model and the visual environment in the reference frame. A central vision quality criterion is determined for an object of the visual environment seen by the eye model through the myopia control optical lens. A myopia control efficiency criterion is determined for an object of the visual environment seen by the eye through the myopia control optical lens. The adaptation of the myopia control optical lens is determined based on the central vision quality criterion and the myopia control efficiency criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL
    Inventors: Samy HAMLAOUI, Alain GOULET, Sébastien FRICKER
  • Patent number: 11776674
    Abstract: A system for verifying medication doses in a filled medication package comprises an imaging unit to produce at least one image of a filled medication package and a verification unit for receiving the image of the filled medication package. The verification unit comprises a dose locator to determine from the image a location of any dose in the filled medication package, and associate a time period to the location. It also comprises a dose verifier to verify an identity of any dose from the visual characteristics of the image as a function of dose reference profiles. The verification unit compares an identity and time period of the doses of the filled medication package to a prescription and has an interface for producing verification output based on the comparison of the verification unit. A method for verifying medication doses in a filled medication package is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: RX-V INC.
    Inventors: Frederic Poirier, Alain Goulet
  • Publication number: 20230236437
    Abstract: A pair of ophthalmic lenses adapted for a wearer whose prescriptions for the left and right eye are different by at least 0.25D in cylinder, the rear surfaces of both ophthalmic lenses having a substantially identical shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: Essilor International
    Inventors: Alain GOULET, Samy HAMLAOUI, Olivier ROUSSEL
  • Publication number: 20230050801
    Abstract: A method for determining an optical lens adapted for a wearer and optimized for at least a given optical criterion having a target value around a specific gaze direction. The method includes determining an intermediate optical lens by optimizing, using an optimization function, an initial optical lens so that the difference between the value of the at least given optical criterion of the intermediate optical lens and the target value of gaze directions around a specific gaze direction is smaller than or equal to a threshold value, and determining the optical lens by optimizing the intermediate optical lens so as to obtain the largest zone of gaze directions around the specific gaze direction for which the difference between the value of the at least given optical criterion and the target value around the specific gaze direction is smaller than or equal to the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: Essilor International
    Inventors: Cyril GUILLOUX, Alain GOULET, Samy HAMLAOUI, Asma LAKHOUA
  • Publication number: 20220373823
    Abstract: A device for determining a head freedom area of an optical lens adapted for a wearer looking at a specific point in a scene through the optical lens comprises at least one input adapted to obtain optical lens data representing the optical features of an optical lens, to obtain wearing data and fitting data representative of the wearing conditions and fitting parameters of the optical lens, and to obtain a specific threshold value for an optical performance criterion; and at least one processor configured for determining the head freedom area that corresponds to the head positions of the wearer that provide optical performances greater than or equal to the specific threshold value when the wearer is wearing the optical lens in given wearing conditions upon given fitting parameters and looking at the specific point in the scene through the optical lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: Essilor International
    Inventors: Isabelle POULAIN, Guillaume GIRAUDET, Laurent CALIXTE, Alain GOULET, Sébastien FRICKER
  • Publication number: 20220305572
    Abstract: A cutting tool may include a shank having a drive end for interfacing with a powered driver, a body portion extending operably coupled to and extending away from the shank, a cutting portion extending from the body portion and sharing an axis with the shank and the body portion, the cutting portion including a plurality of cutting edges, and a deburring assembly operably coupled to the cutting portion or the body portion. The deburring assembly may be configured to be fully insertable into a hole cut by the cutting tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Brian Pigott, Alain Goulet, Bill McMaster
  • Publication number: 20210090704
    Abstract: A system for verifying medication doses in a filled medication package comprises an imaging unit to produce at least one image of a filled medication package and a verification unit for receiving the image of the filled medication package. The verification unit comprises a dose locator to determine from the image a location of any dose in the filled medication package, and associate a time period to the location. It also comprises a dose verifier to verify an identity of any dose from the visual characteristics of the image as a function of dose reference profiles. The verification unit compares an identity and time period of the doses of the filled medication package to a prescription and has an interface for producing verification output based on the comparison of the verification unit. A method for verifying medication doses in a filled medication package is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Frederic POIRIER, Alain GOULET
  • Patent number: 10036898
    Abstract: Method for determining an ophthalmic lens which comprises an aspherical continuous layer and an aspherical Fresnel layer. The aspherical continuous layer is supported by one of the faces of the lens, the same holds for the aspherical Fresnel layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Sylvain Chene, Alain Goulet
  • Patent number: 10018883
    Abstract: The invention concerns a transparent thin liquid crystal alignment film (1) including liquid crystals (2) within a polymerised liquid crystal composition, the film (1) comprising a first main surface (1a), a second main surface (1b) and a bulk (1c) comprised between said opposed two main surfaces (1a, 1b), for which: ? in the vicinity of the first main surface (1a), the liquid crystals (2a) are aligned along a main first direction, ? in the vicinity of the second main surface (1b), the liquid crystals (2b) are aligned along a main second direction, different from the first direction, and in between, the bulk (1c) comprises liquid crystals (2c) maintained in an isotropic orientation. The invention concerns also a process of manufacturing such a liquid crystal alignment film (1) and a polarization-independent spatial phase modulator including such a liquid crystal alignment film (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignees: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE), NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mathieu Feuillade, Alain Goulet
  • Patent number: 9709820
    Abstract: A refractive Fresnel lens used for an optical system including an image plane, which includes a plurality of zone lens surfaces disposed concentrically and a plurality of side wall surfaces each formed between adjacent zone lens surfaces, is characterized in that the side wall surfaces are modulated so as to spatially spread in the image plane noise light due to reflection and/or refraction at the side wall surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignees: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale D'Optique), Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Fujii, Alain Goulet
  • Publication number: 20160377906
    Abstract: The invention concerns a transparent thin liquid crystal alignment film (1) including liquid crystals (2) within a polymerised liquid crystal composition, the film (1) comprising a first main surface (1a), a second main surface (1b) and a bulk (1c) comprised between said opposed two main surfaces (1a, 1b), for which: in the vicinity of the first main surface (1a), the liquid crystals (2a) are aligned along a main first direction, in the vicinity of the second main surface (1b), the liquid crystals (2b) are aligned along a main second direction, different from the first direction, and in between, the bulk (1c) comprises liquid crystals (2c) maintained in an isotropic orientation. The invention concerns also a process of manufacturing such a liquid crystal alignment film (1) and a polarization-independent spatial phase modulator including such a liquid crystal alignment film (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicants: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE), NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mathieu FEUILLADE, Alain GOULET
  • Publication number: 20150286068
    Abstract: Method for determining an ophthalmic lens which comprises an aspherical continuous layer and an aspherical Fresnel layer. The aspherical continuous layer is supported by one of the faces of the lens, the same holds for the aspherical Fresnel layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Sylvain Chene, Alain Goulet
  • Publication number: 20150261008
    Abstract: A refractive Fresnel lens used for an optical system including an image plane, which includes a plurality of zone lens surfaces disposed concentrically and a plurality of side wall surfaces each formed between adjacent zone lens surfaces, is characterized in that the side wall surfaces are modulated so as to spatially spread in the image plane noise light due to reflection and/or refraction at the side wall surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Toru Fujii, Alain Goulet
  • Publication number: 20130194414
    Abstract: A system for verifying medication doses m a filled medication package comprises an imaging unit to produce at least one image of a filled medication package and a verification unit for receiving the image of the filled medication package. The verification unit comprises a dose locator to determine from the image a location of any dose m the filled medication package, and associate a time period to the location. It also comprises a dose verifier to verify an identity of any dose from the visual characteristics of the image as a function of dose reference profiles. The verification unit compares an identity and time period of the doses of the filled medication package to a prescription and has an interface for producing verification output based on the comparison of the verification unit. A method for verifying medication doses m a filled medication package is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventors: Frédéric Poirier, Alain Goulet
  • Publication number: 20110164329
    Abstract: The present method for coating a Fresnel lens blank includes providing an uncoated Fresnel lens blank having a structure surface and a non-structured surface, providing a transparent mold part having molding surface substantially matching the base curvature of the Fresnel lens, depositing a metered quantity of coating resin between the molding surface and the structured surface of the Fresnel lens, applying pressure between the Fresnel lens and the mold part while maintaining the distance between the molding surface and the structure surface so that the thickness of the coating is greater than 1.5 times the Fresnel structural height of the structured surface and less than 5 times of the Fresnel structure height of the structured surface and curing the resin coating in situ by directing the incident UV radiation at the Fresnel lens. A double coating may be employed for obtaining both higher optical power and better mechanical properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Inventors: Peiqi JIANG, Lois WARREN, Danne WRIGHT, Alain GOULET