Patents by Inventor Franck Gounou

Franck Gounou 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: 20240130851
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved ophthalmic lenses, particularly intraocular lenses (IOLs), include features for providing improved extended depth of focus lenses. Exemplary ophthalmic lenses can include an optic including a diffractive profile including at least one set of echelettes, each echelette of the set having a different width in r-squared space than any other echelette of the set and the at least one set of echelettes repeating at least once upon the optic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Franck Gounou, Hendrik A. Weeber, Robert Rosen, Carmen Canovas Vidal, Patricia A. Piers
  • Publication number: 20240118563
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved ophthalmic lenses, particularly intraocular lenses (IOLs), include features for vertex matching distance regions of such lenses. Exemplary ophthalmic lenses can include an optic disposed about an optical axis and having a refractive profile including a region having an add power and a first distance region and a second distance region extending outward from the first distance region and being vertex matched with the first distance region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Robert Rosen, Franck Gounou
  • Patent number: 11886046
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved ophthalmic lenses, particularly intraocular lenses (IOLs), include features for vertex matching distance regions of such lenses. Exemplary ophthalmic lenses can include an optic disposed about an optical axis and having a refractive profile including a region having an add power and a first distance region and a second distance region extending outward from the first distance region and being vertex matched with the first distance region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: AMO Groningen B.V.
    Inventors: Robert Rosen, Franck Gounou
  • Patent number: 11844689
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved ophthalmic lenses, particularly intraocular lenses (IOLs), include features for providing improved extended depth of focus lenses. Exemplary ophthalmic lenses can include an optic including a diffractive profile including at least one set of echelettes, each echelette of the set having a different width in r-squared space than any other echelette of the set and the at least one set of echelettes repeating at least once upon the optic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: AMO Groningen B.V.
    Inventors: Franck Gounou, Hendrik A. Weeber, Robert Rosen, Carmen Canovas Vidal, Patricia A. Piers
  • Patent number: 11844688
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved ophthalmic lenses, particularly intraocular lenses (IOLs), include features for reducing dysphotopsia effects, such as haloes and glare. Exemplary ophthalmic lenses can include an optic including a diffractive achromat configured to direct light to a common focus, with individual zones of the diffractive achromat directing light to the common focus in at least two different diffractive orders utilizing at least two different diffractive powers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: AMO Groningen B.V.
    Inventors: Robert Rosen, Franck Gounou
  • Publication number: 20230190452
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved ophthalmic lenses, particularly intraocular lenses (IOLs), include features for reducing dysphotopsia effects, such as haloes and glare. Exemplary ophthalmic lenses can include an optic having a central region disposed about an optical axis and a peripheral region extending outward from the central region, with a diffractive achromat positioned on the peripheral region, and the central region lacking an achromat, and a base power for distance of the central region being the same as a base power for distance of the peripheral region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Robert Rosen, Franck Gounou
  • Publication number: 20230190451
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved ophthalmic lenses, particularly intraocular lenses (IOLs), include features for reducing adverse optical effects from diffractive profiles of such a lens. Exemplary ophthalmic lenses can include an optic including a diffractive profile including a transition zone having a parabolic shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Aixa ALARCON HEREDIA, Miguel FARIA RIBEIRO, Franck GOUNOU, Patricia A. PIERS, Hendrik WEEBER, Carmen CANOVAS VIDAL, Robert ROSEN
  • Publication number: 20230172705
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved ophthalmic lenses, particularly intraocular lenses (IOLs), include features for providing improved extended depth of focus lenses. Exemplary ophthalmic lenses can include an optic including a diffractive profile including multiple rings, with the rings having step heights corresponding to a desired performance of the optic and configured to reduce adverse optical effects of the diffractive profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Aixa ALARCON HEREDIA, Miguel FARIA RIBEIRO, Franck GOUNOU, Patricia A. PIERS, Hendrik WEEBER, Carmen CANOVAS VIDAL, Robert ROSEN
  • Publication number: 20230073059
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved ophthalmic lenses, particularly intraocular lenses (IOLs), include features for reducing adverse optical effects from diffractive profiles of such a lens. Exemplary ophthalmic lenses can include an optic including a diffractive profile including a transition zone having an elevated surface roughness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: AMO Groningen B.V.
    Inventors: Hendrik A. Weeber, Aixa Alarcon Heredia, Carmen Canovas Vidal, Franck Gounou, Patricia A. Piers, Miguel Faria Ribeiro
  • Patent number: 11583392
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved ophthalmic lenses, particularly intraocular lenses (IOLs), include features for reducing dysphotopsia effects, such as haloes and glare. Exemplary ophthalmic lenses can include an optic having a central region disposed about an optical axis and a peripheral region extending outward from the central region, with a diffractive achromat positioned on the peripheral region, and the central region lacking an achromat, and a base power for distance of the central region being the same as a base power for distance of the peripheral region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: AMO Groningen B.V.
    Inventors: Robert Rosen, Franck Gounou
  • Publication number: 20220287825
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for providing improved intraocular lenses (IOLs) and other refractive treatment modalities involve fabricating the IOL or developing the treatment based on a refractive profile. Exemplary techniques include obtaining a base wavefront power profile corresponding to a theoretical lens, adding a second wavefront profile defined by the combination of one or more zones described by a cosine function to obtain a final wavefront power profile, determining a refractive profile based on the final wavefront power profile, and fabricating the intraocular lens or determining the treatment based on the refractive profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Miguel Faria Ribeiro, Franck Gounou, Carmen Canovas Vidal, Aixa Alarcon Heredia
  • Publication number: 20210196451
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved ophthalmic lenses, particularly intraocular lenses (IOLs), include features for reducing dysphotopsia effects, such as haloes and glare. Exemplary ophthalmic lenses can include an optic including a diffractive achromat configured to direct light to a common focus, with individual zones of the diffractive achromat directing light to the common focus in at least two different diffractive orders utilizing at least two different diffractive powers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Robert Rosen, Franck Gounou
  • Publication number: 20210196453
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved ophthalmic lenses, particularly intraocular lenses (IOLs), include features for providing improved extended depth of focus lenses. Exemplary ophthalmic lenses can include an optic including a diffractive profile including a plurality of echelettes, each echelette of the diffractive profile having a different width in r-squared space than any other echelette of the diffractive profile and each echelette of the diffractive profile being configured to distribute light to a distance focus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Robert Rosen, Franck Gounou
  • Publication number: 20210199989
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved ophthalmic lenses, particularly intraocular lenses (IOLs), include features for vertex matching distance regions of such lenses. Exemplary ophthalmic lenses can include an optic disposed about an optical axis and having a refractive profile including a region having an add power and a first distance region and a second distance region extending outward from the first distance region and being vertex matched with the first distance region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Robert Rosen, Franck Gounou
  • Publication number: 20210196450
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved ophthalmic lenses, particularly intraocular lenses (IOLs), include features for reducing dysphotopsia effects, such as haloes and glare. Exemplary ophthalmic lenses can include an optic having a central region disposed about an optical axis and a peripheral region extending outward from the central region, with a diffractive achromat positioned on the peripheral region, and the central region lacking an achromat, and a base power for distance of the central region being the same as a base power for distance of the peripheral region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Robert Rosen, Franck Gounou
  • Publication number: 20210196452
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved ophthalmic lenses, particularly intraocular lenses (IOLs), include features for providing improved extended depth of focus lenses. Exemplary ophthalmic lenses can include an optic including a diffractive profile including at least one set of echelettes, each echelette of the set having a different width in r-squared space than any other echelette of the set and the at least one set of echelettes repeating at least once upon the optic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Franck Gounou, Hendrik A. Weeber, Robert Rosen, Carmen Canovas Vidal, Patricia A. Piers