Patents by Inventor Jaswant S. Pannu

Jaswant S. Pannu 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).

  • Patent number: 4666444
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an easily insertable intraocular lens including attachment means of various types disposed on the lens body for connecting the haptic to the lens body during insertion of the lens into the eye, thus reducing the overall radial extend of the lens. The haptic may have a snag-resistant loop which is held by the attachment means or a second attachment means which connects to the first. The lens also may have a haptic made from at least two different materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1987
    Inventor: Jaswant S. Pannu
  • Patent number: 4542541
    Abstract: This invention resides in changing the Shearing's supporting strands on an intraocular lens which as a free-flowing pointed end is snag-prone in modifying this pointed end by reshaping it into a generally circular shaped loop wherein the end said circular shape is blunted and contiguous to the resilient strand with variations of shape in the loop including ellipsoidal, tear drop and rectangular, all of which are snag-resistant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1985
    Inventor: Jaswant S. Pannu
  • Patent number: 4435855
    Abstract: A universal intraocular lens that may be implanted in an eye, in an anterior chamber, in a posterior chamber and in any size eye chamber wherein a tangential flexible strand is attached to a lens at one end and the other free end is formed into a snag resistant ring, or disc which is approximately circular to avoid injury to delicate eye tissue during implantation, centration or removal of said lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1984
    Inventor: Jaswant S. Pannu
  • Patent number: RE32525
    Abstract: A universal intraocular lens that may be implanted in an eye, in an anterior chamber, in a posterior chamber and in any size eye chamber wherein a tangential flexible strand is attached to a lens at one end and the other free end is formed into a snag resistant ring, or disc which is approximately circular to avoid injury to delicate eye tissue during implantation, centration or removal of said lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1987
    Inventor: Jaswant S. Pannu