Patents by Inventor Eric Gacoin
Eric Gacoin 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).
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Patent number: 12654373Abstract: A method for forming a mold insert includes forming a stamp, a surface of the stamp including a plurality of inverted microstructures formed thereon; and pressing the stamp into a medium disposed on a surface of a first mold insert to form a microstructured film, the microstructured film including a plurality of microstructures formed on a surface of the microstructured film based on the plurality of inverted microstructures, the plurality of microstructures being complementary to the plurality of inverted microstructures.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2022Date of Patent: June 16, 2026Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Elliot French, Burcin Ikizer, Zbigniew Tokarski, Eric Gacoin, Sebastien Henrion
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Patent number: 12645097Abstract: An optical lens to be worn in front of an eye of a wearer having at least one prescribed refractive power Px, the optical lens including two opposite optical faces and a plurality of contiguous optical elements at least part of the optical elements having an optical function of not focusing an image on the retina of the eye of the wearer so as to slow down the progression of the abnormal refraction of the eye. Over a pupil having at least a 4 mm diameter, one can measure in a plane corresponding to the at least one prescribed refractive power along at least one direction, a Modulation Transfer Function through the optical lens greater than 0.1 between 0 and 20 cyc/deg.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: June 2, 2026Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Eric Gacoin, Matthieu Guillot, Bruno Fermigier, Gilles Le Saux
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Patent number: 12631899Abstract: Disclosed is a method, for example implemented by a computer, for determining the shape of a nose pad, to be part of an ophthalmic lens intended to be worn by a wearer, the method including: receiving lens shape data relating at least to the shape of an ophthalmic lens; receiving morphology data relating at least to the morphology of the nose of the wearer; and determining the shape of the nose pad intended to be part of the ophthalmic lens intended to be worn by the wearer based at least on the lens shape data and morphology data.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: May 19, 2026Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Valérie Salles, Bruno Amir, Jean-Marc Padiou, Eric Gacoin
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Patent number: 12596269Abstract: A lens element intended to be worn in front of an eye of a wearer, the lens element including at least two first areas having a refractive power based on a prescription of the wearer for said eye of the wearer, a plurality of second areas having at least a second optical function in specific wearing conditions, where one can determine at least one first radial path crossing at least a first second area in a first point and a second point, the first and second points being adjacent to the at least two first areas, the first radial coordinate being greater than the second radial coordinate, and the radial optical power at the first point is significantly different from the radial optical power at the second point.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 7, 2026Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Matthieu Guillot, Bruno Fermigier, Carlos Rego, Eric Gacoin
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Patent number: 12529909Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing an ophthalmic lens to be mounted into a frame, including: a step of acquiring an optical prescription for the future wearer of the ophthalmic lens and an information relative to the ophthalmic lens and/or to the future wearer and/or to the frame; a step of calculating a surfacing instruction of the ophthalmic lens, the surfacing instruction being determined SO that the ophthalmic lens once surfaced satisfies the optical prescription; and a step of surfacing during which the at least one optical face of the ophthalmic lens is surfaced according to the surfacing instruction. During the step of calculating, the surfacing instruction is calculated so that the optical face of the ophthalmic lens once surfaced includes a mark that results from the step of surfacing and that forms a code associated with the information.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2021Date of Patent: January 20, 2026Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Yu Liu, Jinhhao Ng, Yassine Fakhreddine, Muhammad Leman, Eric Gacoin
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Patent number: 12523886Abstract: A lens element intended to be worn in front of an eye of a wearer having a refraction area having a refractive power based on a prescription for said eye of the wearer, an a plurality of at least two optical elements having an optical function of not focusing an image on the retina of the eye of the wearer, wherein the refraction area comprises a plurality of respectively independent island-shaped areas, the refraction area is formed as the area other than the optical elements and each refraction island shape area is within one optical element.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: January 13, 2026Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Eric Gacoin, Bruno Fermigier, Matthieu Guillot
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Patent number: 12517374Abstract: Disclosed is an optical lens including at least one continuous scattering area having a characteristic dimension d greater than or equal to 2 mm. Any sub-area of characteristic dimension dsub included in the at least one continuous scattering area, with dsub greater than or equal to 0.05 mm, verifies: |% Iscat_area?% Iscat_subarea|<0.2*% Iscat_area, where % Iscat_area is the average intensity ratio of light scattered by the continuous scattering area, and % Iscat_subarea is the average intensity ratio of light scattered by the sub-area.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2021Date of Patent: January 6, 2026Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Montserrat Burgos, Eric Gacoin, Aref Jallouli, Philippe Vaneeckhoutte, Hao-Wen Chiu, Matthieu Guillot
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Patent number: 12510766Abstract: An optical lens intended to be worn in front of an eye of a wearer having at least one prescribed refractive power Px, the optical lens comprising two opposite optical faces and a plurality of contiguous optical elements at least part of the optical elements having an optical function of not focusing an image on the retina of the eye of the wearer so as to slow down the progression of the abnormal refraction of the eye, wherein: —over a pupil having at least a 4 mm diameter, one can measure in a plane corresponding to the at least one prescribed refractive power along at least one direction, a Modulation Transfer Function through the optical lens greater than 0.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2021Date of Patent: December 30, 2025Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Eric Gacoin, Matthieu Guillot, Bruno Fermigier, Gilles Le Saux
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Patent number: 12429710Abstract: A method for characterizing optical elements of a lens element adapted for a person is presented, the lens element including: a holder including a refraction area having a refractive power based on a prescription for correcting an abnormal refraction of an eye of the person; and a plurality of optical elements configured so that at least one of slow down, retard or prevent a progress of the abnormal refraction of the eye of the person. A two-dimensional representation of the local optical power of the lens element is obtained using a fringe deflectometry method and the images used for the fringe deflectometry method consist of pixels smaller than or equal to 0.05 mm×0.05 mm.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2020Date of Patent: September 30, 2025Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Matthieu Guillot, Cédric Lemaire, Eric Gacoin, Marion Cornet
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Publication number: 20250291205Abstract: Optical lens intended to be worn by a wearer An optical lens intended to be worn by a wearer comprising: —a refraction area having a refractive power based on a prescription for said eye of the wearer; —a plurality of optical elements having a transparent optical function of not focusing an image on the retina of the eye of the wearer when the optical lens is worn in standard wearing conditions, —a zone of interest comprising a subset of the optical elements, each optical elements in the subset bearing a cylinder component on its surface, wherein the zone of interest is of at least 50 mm2, and the standard deviation of the orientations of the cylinder axis of each optical element comprised in the zone of interest is smaller than or equal to 15° with respect to a common predefined direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2023Publication date: September 18, 2025Applicant: Essilor InternationalInventors: Patrick HUGONNEAUX, Matthieu GUILLOT, Eric GACOIN, Bruno FERMIGIER
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Patent number: 12416819Abstract: Disclosed is a method implemented by a computer for determining surfacing data to obtain a surface of a lens element, the surface of the lens element including: a refraction area having a first curvature; and multiple optical elements placed on at least part of the finished optical surface, each optical element having at least a second curvature.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2021Date of Patent: September 16, 2025Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Eric Gacoin, Khamphone Sisavanh, Jean Stephane
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Publication number: 20250199333Abstract: It is proposed a lens intended to be worn in front of or on an eye of a wearer and to provide a first refractive power (Rx) for correcting an abnormal refraction of the eye of the wearer; wherein the lens comprises a refractive area configured to provide the first refractive power (Rx) and a functional area configured to provide an optical function; and wherein on a first zone defined on the lens, more than 5% of the surface of said first zone has a local refractive power ranging from the first refractive power (Rx) minus 0.25 diopter and the first refractive power (Rx) plus 0.25 diopter, and more than 25% of the surface of said first zone covers the functional area.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2023Publication date: June 19, 2025Applicant: Essilor InternationalInventors: Matthieu GUILLOT, Eric GACOIN, David RIO, Samy HAMLAOUI, Guillaume GIRAUDET
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Publication number: 20250053025Abstract: A lens element intended to be worn in front of an eye of a wearer, the lens element being adapted to provide a prescribed dioptric correction function in a prescription plane, the lens element including an arrangement of microoptical elements. When receiving a collimated beam of monochromatic light, the lens element is configured to produce a primary luminous intensity maximum in a prescription plane, and the arrangement of microoptical elements is configured to produce at least one first secondary luminous intensity maximum at a first proximity difference from the prescription plane and at least one second secondary luminous intensity maximum at a second proximity difference from the prescription plane, the first proximity difference and the second proximity difference having opposite signs.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2022Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: Essilor InternationalInventors: Eric GACOIN, Matthieu GUILLOT, Bruno FERMIGIER, Aude BOUCHIER
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Publication number: 20250044190Abstract: Method, for example implemented by computer means, for characterizing at least part of a lens element adapted for a wearer and comprising a plurality of optical elements, each optical element of the plurality of optical elements providing at least an optical power, for example so as to at least one of slow down, retard or prevent a progress of the abnormal refraction of the eye of the wearer; wherein the method comprises: —obtaining a two-dimension representation of the local optical power of at least part of the lens element using a deflectometry method, for example a fringe deflectometry method, —determining the optical power distribution over at least part of the two-dimension representation of the lens element, and—characterizing at least the part of the lens element within said at least part of the two-dimension representation of the lens element by analyzing the determined optical power distribution.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2023Publication date: February 6, 2025Inventors: Matthieu GUILLOT, Eric GACOIN, Bruno FERMIGIER, Patrick HUGONNEAUX
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Publication number: 20240316846Abstract: A method for forming a mold insert includes forming a stamp, a surface of the stamp including a plurality of inverted microstructures formed thereon; and pressing the stamp into a medium disposed on a surface of a first mold insert to form a microstructured film, the microstructured film including a plurality of microstructures formed on a surface of the microstructured film based on the plurality of inverted microstructures, the plurality of microstructures being complementary to the plurality of inverted microstructures.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2022Publication date: September 26, 2024Inventors: Elliot FRENCH, Burcin IKIZER, Zbigniew TOKARSKI, Eric GACOIN, Sebastien HENRION
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Patent number: 11969848Abstract: The tool includes a base including a rigid carrier and a flexible collar encircling the rigid carrier; an elastically compressible interface; and a flexible buffer including a central portion that is located in line with the rigid carrier and a peripheral portion that is located transversely therebeyond. This peripheral portion is connected to the carrier exclusively via the interface and via the collar, wherein the collar is configured so that the tool is elastically deformable between a rest position that it adopts in the absence of stress and a reference position in which the transverse end second surface of the flexible buffer is pressed against a reference surface that is spherical and of radius included between 40 mm and 1500 mm.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Eric Gacoin, Pierre Kress, Jean Stephane, Jonathan Saulny
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Publication number: 20240045229Abstract: Disclosed is a method, for example implemented by a computer, for determining the shape of a nose pad, to be part of an ophthalmic lens intended to be worn by a wearer, the method including: receiving lens shape data relating at least to the shape of an ophthalmic lens; receiving morphology data relating at least to the morphology of the nose of the wearer; and determining the shape of the nose pad intended to be part of the ophthalmic lens intended to be worn by the wearer based at least on the lens shape data and morphology data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Valérie SALLES, Bruno AMIR, Jean-Marc PADIOU, Eric GACOIN
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Publication number: 20240012269Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a lens element intended to be worn in front of an eye of a person, the lens element including two opposite optical faces and a plurality of optical elements each having an optical function of not focusing an image on the retina of the eye of the person so as to slow down the progression of the abnormal refraction of the eye. The method includes: providing a lens blank having at least one unfinished face; and processing the at least one unfinished face to obtain in combination with the opposed optical face a refractive power based on the prescription for the eye of the person and at least a part of the plurality of the optical elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventor: Eric GACOIN
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Publication number: 20240004220Abstract: A lens element intended to be worn in front of an eye of a wearer, the lens element including at least two first areas having a refractive power based on a prescription of the wearer for said eye of the wearer, a plurality of second areas having at least a second optical function in specific wearing conditions, where one can determine at least one first radial path crossing at least a first second area in a first point and a second point, the first and second points being adjacent to the at least two first areas, the first radial coordinate being greater than the second radial coordinate, and the radial optical power at the first point is significantly different from the radial optical power at the second point.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2021Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: Essilor InternationalInventors: Matthieu GUILLOT, Bruno FERMIGIER, Carlos REGO, Eric GACOIN
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Publication number: 20230384617Abstract: Disclosed is an optical lens including at least one continuous scattering area having a characteristic dimension d greater than or equal to 2 mm. Any sub-area of characteristic dimension dsub included in the at least one continuous scattering area, with dsub greater than or equal to 0.05 mm, verifies: |% Iscat_area?% Iscat_subarea|<0.2*% Iscat_area, where % Iscat_area is the average intensity ratio of light scattered by the continuous scattering area, and % Iscat_subarea is the average intensity ratio of light scattered by the sub-area.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2021Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Montserrat BURGOS, Eric GACOIN, Aref JALLOULI, Philippe VANEECKHOUTTE, Hao-Wen CHIU, Matthieu GUILLOT