Patents by Inventor Lawrence A. Polikoff

Lawrence A. Polikoff 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: 4387707
    Abstract: An eye treatment device including a unit adapted to be placed against a user's eye and forming a chamber which contains a fluid maintained under a fluctuating pressure, with the chamber having a flexible wall to be received adjacent the eye and communicate the fluctuating pressure thereto in a manner exerting a fluctuating massaging force against the eye through the flexible wall. To correct a user's vision, the eye may first be massaged by the described device, or otherwise, to soften the eye, following which a shaping element may be placed against the eye to deform it slightly to a changed contour improving the vision in a desired respect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1983
    Inventor: Lawrence A. Polikoff