Patents by Inventor Frank Thorn

Frank Thorn 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).

  • Method for preventing myopia progression through identification and correction of optical aberrations
    Patent number: 7803153
    Abstract: A method for at least one of preventing myopia and retarding the progression of myopia is provided. The method includes measuring optical aberrations in a human eye (42, 43, 44) and correcting the optical aberrations (46). Measuring optical aberrations (42, 43, 44) may include measuring wavefront aberrations (45) of parallel light rays entering the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: New England College of Optometry
    Inventors: Frank Thorn, Richard Held, Jane E. Gwiazda, Ji C. He
  • Method for preventing myopia progression through identification and correction of optical aberrations
    Publication number: 20080309882
    Abstract: A method for at least one of preventing myopia and retarding the progression of myopia is provided. The method includes measuring optical aberrations in a human eye and correcting the optical aberrations. Measuring optical aberrations may include measuring wavefront aberrations of parallel light rays entering the eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: New England College of Optometry
    Inventors: Frank Thorn, Richard Held, Jane E. Gwiazda, Ji C. He
  • Method for preventing myopia progression through identification and correction of optical aberrations
    Publication number: 20030058404
    Abstract: A method for at least one of preventing myopia and retarding the progression of myopia is provided. The method includes measuring optical aberrations in a human eye (42, 43, 44) and correcting the optical aberrations (46). Measuring optical aberrations (42, 43, 44) may include measuring wavefront aberrations (45) of parallel light rays entering the eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Inventors: Frank Thorn, Richard Held, Jane E Gwiazda, Ji C He
  • Bridge coupling in a torque converter
    Patent number: 6076642
    Abstract: A bridge coupling on a hydrodynamic torque converter is embodied with an axially movable piston arranged on a radial bearing. In one operating position, the piston can be brought into active connection with a support surface of a radial flange of the converter housing via at least one friction lining. The piston executes its axial movement under the influence of an axially elastic element integrated in the radial bearing and having an elastomer substantially deformable in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Assignee: Mannesmann Sachs AG
    Inventors: Roland Illig, Frank Thorn, Robert Besendorf, Maximilian Henze, Bernd Schoder, Klaus Seemann
  • Remote ophthalmoscope and fundus photography unit
    Patent number: 4755044
    Abstract: A system for performing an examination of the eye of a subject which uses a source of light and a concave mirror for focusing such light at a selected region of the fundus of the eye so as to form an enlarged optical image of the selected region at a selected spatial region which is remote from the eye. An ophthalmoscope, or camera, or other viewing instrument is then focused at the selected spatial region to permit the selected region of the eye to be viewed either immediately or photographed for subsequent viewing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1988
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventor: Frank Thorn