Abstract: This invention is related to contact lenses. In particular, the present invention is related to.

Abstract: This invention is related to lenses and the associated processes used to manufacture lenses. In particular, the present invention is related to a process for designing and creating bifocal, multifocal, and single vision ophthalmic lenses by modulating an energy source.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for designing and making a customized ophthalmic lens, such as a contact lens or an intraocular lens, capable of correcting high-order aberrations of an eye. The posterior surface of the customized contact lens is designed to accommodate the corneal topography of an eye. The design of the customized ophthalmic lens is evaluated and optimized in an optimizing routine using a computational model eye that reproduces the aberrations and corneal topography of an eye. The present invention also provides a system and method for characterizing the optical metrology of a customized ophthalmic lens that is designed to correct aberrations of an eye. Furthermore, the present invention provides a business model and method for placing an order for a pair of customized ophthalmic lenses.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for designing and making a customized ophthalmic lens, such as a contact lens or an intraocular lens, capable of correcting high-order aberrations of an eye. The posterior surface of the customized contact lens is designed to accommodate the corneal topography of an eye. The design of the customized ophthalmic lens is evaluated and optimized in an optimizing routine using a computational model eye that reproduces the aberrations and corneal topography of an eye. The present invention also provides a system and method for characterizing the optical metrology of a customized ophthalmic lens that is designed to correct aberrations of an eye. Furthermore, the present invention provides a business model and method for placing an order for a pair of customized ophthalmic lenses.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for designing and making a customized ophthalmic lens, such as a contact lens or an intraocular lens, capable of correcting high-order aberrations of an eye. The posterior surface of the customized contact lens is designed to accommodate the corneal topography of an eye. The design of the customized ophthalmic lens is evaluated and optimized in an optimizing routine using a computational model eye that reproduces the aberrations and corneal topography of an eye. The present invention also provides a system and method for characterizing the optical metrology of a customized ophthalmic lens that is designed to correct aberrations of an eye. Furthermore, the present invention provides a business model and method for placing an order for a pair of customized ophthalmic lenses.

Abstract: An ophthalmic lens includes an optical zone having a center and a spaced-apart periphery. The optical zone has a first corrective power range in a first region and a second corrective power range in an annular region surrounding the first optical zone. The second corrective power is corrective of spherical aberration of an eye. The optical zone has a power profile that gradually changes from the first corrective power to the second corrective power. A central progressive zone that provides intermediate vision correction may be applied to a central region of the lens. The progressive zone has a diameter that is less than or equal to the diameter of an aperture of a pupil when subjected to bright light.

Abstract: The present invention is related to a process for efficient manufacture of bifocal, multi-focal, single vision and mass customized ophthalmic lenses by modulating an energy source according to a cure period and a cure pattern to create a maximum number of lenses with a minimum number of molds and associated tooling.

Abstract: This invention is generally related to vision corrections by means of multifocal ophthalmic lenses or by means of corneal refractive surgery. In particular, the present invention provides a multifocal contact lens, a multifocal intraocular lens, a method for making a multifocal ophthalmic lens (contact lens and intraocular lens), and a method of correcting presbyopia by reshaping the cornea of an eye.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a contact lens design where the optics position relative to the pupil is controlled by the lens relationship to the lower lid.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for converting a desired lens design to a geometry of a contact lens, preferably a customized contact lens or a contact lens having a complex surface design, to be produced in a computer-controlled manufacturing system.

Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for designing and making a contact lens which comprises stiffening rib features that provide even distribution of pressure from the lens over the cornea of an eye and/or allows the lens structure to maintain balance of forces for consistent and correct lens orientation on an eye during lens translation or eye lid movement. The invention also provides a soft contact lens comprising stiffening rib features that provides localized directional reinforcements to the lens structure to evenly distribute pressure from the lens over the cornea of an eye and/or to maintain balance of forces for consistent and correct lens orientation on an eye during lens translation or eye lid movement.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods for lathing at room temperature a silicone hydrogel material, in particular silicone hydrogel material having a high oxygen permeability and made of a polymerizable composition containing a relative large amount of oxyperm component, into contact lenses.

Abstract: The present invention is related to a contact lens for correcting severe spherical aberration. The contact lens of the invention comprises an anterior surface having a first optical zone and an opposite posterior surface having a second optical zone. The first optical zone is defined by a mathematical function including a conic term and at least one 4th or higher order mathematic term. The first optical zone, in combination with the second optical zone, provides a power profile in which the optical power of the lens decreases outwardly from the optical axis to the outer periphery such that the optical power at a 6 mm diameter is from about 1 to 5 diopters smaller than a manifest refractive power for an eye. The present invention also provides a series of contact lenses and a method for making contact lenses of the invention.

Abstract: The invention discloses a pair of bifocal contact lenses: one lens for dominant eye and one lens for non-dominant eye. Both lenses have an optical zone divided into a superior zone and an inferior zone. The superior zone of the lens for dominant eye is for distance vision correction while the inferior zone is for near or intermediate vision correction. The superior zone of the lens for non-dominant eye is for distance or intermediate vision correction while the inferior zone is for near or intermediate vision correction.

Abstract: The present invention provides a contact lens having an orientation feature that does not provide an prism optical distortion and can maintain a predetermined orientation of the lens on an eye. A contact lens of the invention comprises an anterior surface and an opposite posterior surface. The anterior surface includes a vertical meridian, a horizontal meridian, a central optical zone, a blending zone extending outwardly from the central optical zone, a peripheral zone surrounding the blending zone, and an edge zone circumscribing and tangent to the peripheral zone. The presence of the blending zone ensures that the peripheral zone, the blending zone and the central optical zone are tangent to each other.

Abstract: An ophthalmic lens includes an optical zone having a center and a spaced-apart periphery. The optical zone has a first corrective power range in a first region and a second corrective power range in an annular region surrounding the first optical zone. The second corrective power is corrective of spherical aberration of an eye. The optical zone has a power profile that gradually changes from the first corrective power to the second corrective power. A central progressive zone that provides intermediate vision correction may be applied to a central region of the lens. The progressive zone has a diameter that is less than or equal to the diameter of an aperture of a pupil when subjected to bright light.