Patents by Inventor Kenneth W. Foley

Kenneth W. Foley 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).

  • Mold for forming a contact lens and method of preventing formation of small strands of contact lens material during contact lens manufacture
    Patent number: 7156641
    Abstract: This invention provides a mold for forming a contact lens comprising an overflow collector, which causes the overflow reactive mixture to be accumulated, and not to spread out as it would upon the typically flat surface of a prior art mold. This invention further provides a method of preventing the formation of contaminating pieces of overflow reactive mixture comprising the step of: preventing the overflow reactive mixture from spreading out on the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Frederick Ansell, Jan Albert Maria Windey, Kenneth W. Foley, Jr., Gerald Robert Krebsbach, Robert MacDonald Smith, Carl G. Crowe, Jr.
  • Shape memory polymer or alloy ophthalmic lens mold and methods of forming ophthalmic products
    Patent number: 6827325
    Abstract: A shape memory polymer contact lens mold is formed from a sheet of a shape memory polymer in a press, an agile tool or by an agile tool formed by an inert gas at a temperature at or above the glass transition temperature which is thereupon cooled to below the glass transition temperature and removed therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory J. Hofmann, Kenneth W. Foley, Thomas R. Rooney, Patrick J. Hood
  • Shape memory polymer or alloy ophthalmic lens mold and methods of forming ophthalmic products
    Publication number: 20040015261
    Abstract: A shape memory polymer contact lens mold is formed from a sheet of a shape memory polymer in a press, an agile tool or by an agile tool formed by an inert gas at a temperature at or above the glass transition temperature which is thereupon cooled to below the glass transition temperature and removed therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2002
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventors: Gregory J. Hofmann, Kenneth W. Foley, Thomas R. Rooney, Patrick J. Hood
  • Mold for forming a contact lens and method of preventing formation of small strands of contact lens material during contact lens manufacture
    Publication number: 20020093113
    Abstract: This invention provides a mold for forming a contact lens comprising an overflow collector, which causes the overflow reactive mixture to be accumulated, and not to spread out as it would upon the typically flat surface of a prior art mold. This invention further provides a method of preventing the formation of contaminating pieces of overflow reactive mixture comprising the step of: preventing the overflow reactive mixture from spreading out on the mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2002
    Publication date: July 18, 2002
    Inventors: Scott Frederick Ansell, Jan Albert Maria Windey, Kenneth W. Foley, Gerald Robert Krebsbach, Robert MacDonald Smith, Carl G. Crowe
  • Mold for forming a contact lens and method of preventing formation of small strands of contact lens material during contact lens manufacture
    Patent number: 6368522
    Abstract: This invention provides a mold for forming a contact lens including an overflow collector, which causes the overflow reactive mixture to be accumulated, and not to spread out as it would upon the typically flat surface of a prior art mold. This invention further provides a method of preventing the formation of contaminating pieces of overflow reactive mixture comprising the step of: preventing the overflow reactive mixture from spreading out on the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Frederick Ansell, Jan Albert Maria Windey, Kenneth W. Foley, Jr., Gerald Robert Krebsbach, Robert MacDonald Smith, Carl G. Crowe, Jr.