Patents by Inventor Mark Penick

Mark Penick 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).

  • Ophthalmic lenses with melanin and ocular lens pigment having low fluorescence
    Publication number: 20140139803
    Abstract: Fluorescence as a new source of haze caused by the light-filtering agent in ophthalmic lenses is introduced. A transparent ophthalmic lens comprising melanin as the light filtering agent with reduced fluorescence from melanin is described and the techniques used to quench the melanin fluorescence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: Photoprotective Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James M. Gallas, Mark A. Penick, John-Paul Lozano
  • Methods for tinting plastic films and sheets with melanin
    Publication number: 20050230347
    Abstract: This invention relates to the field of eye protection and vision enhancement by filters of UV and the higher energy visible (HEV) light—such as sunglass lenses. More specifically, it relates to the process of tinting plastic films and sheets with solutions of synthetic melanin. Such plastic films may include sunglass lenses, and ophthalmic lenses in general, windows, light filters such as photograph covers, canopies, etc., and other similar media utilized to protect valuable goods from radiation damage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2004
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Inventors: James Gallas, Mark Penick, Melvin Eisner, Joshua James
  • Polymer composition for traction on ice
    Publication number: 20050070681
    Abstract: The present invention provides a composition comprising a polymer and methods of using the composition to increase the traction of an article of manufacture on an icy surface. The polymer can be a silicate polymer, a plancheite-derived polymer, a pinacol polymer, an indanol polymer, a phenol polymer, or an m-xylylene polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2004
    Publication date: March 31, 2005
    Inventor: Mark Penick