Patents by Inventor Markus Welscher

Markus Welscher 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: 11835801
    Abstract: A family of spectacle lenses is provided in which each spectacle lens is configured to achieve a specified prescriptive spherical power from among a number of prescriptive spherical powers and a specified prescriptive astigmatic power from among a number of prescriptive astigmatic powers. Each spectacle lens has a specified rotationally symmetrical spectacle-lens front face, a specified atoric spectacle-lens rear face, and in at least one principal section, such a deviation in the curvature from the circular form that, for a value for the distance between the vertex of the spectacle lens rear face and the pivot point of the eye, which lies in a range between 15 and 40 mm, at any point in a spectacle lens region within a radius of 25 mm about the geometrical center of the spectacle lens, an upper limit of the total deviation of the power is not exceeded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventor: Markus Welscher
  • Patent number: 11372263
    Abstract: A bifocal spectacle lens and a method for creating a numerical representation of a bifocal spectacle lens are disclosed. The bifocal spectacle lens includes a distance portion, a near portion, and a transition section situated between the distance portion and the near portion. The distance portion is optimized in view of an optical power for distance vision and the near portion is optimized in view of an optical power for near vision. The transition section is determined such that the transition section creates a continuous transition between the distance portion and the near portion. The distance portion and the near portion are optimized independently of one another and put together with the transition section to form the numerical representation of the bifocal spectacle lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Welscher, Ray Steven Spratt
  • Publication number: 20220121039
    Abstract: A bifocal spectacle lens and a method for creating a numerical representation of a bifocal spectacle lens are disclosed. The bifocal spectacle lens includes a distance portion, a near portion, and a transition section situated between the distance portion and the near portion. The distance portion is optimized in view of an optical power for distance vision and the near portion is optimized in view of an optical power for near vision. The transition section is determined such that the transition section creates a continuous transition between the distance portion and the near portion. The distance portion and the near portion are optimized independently of one another and put together with the transition section to form the numerical representation of the bifocal spectacle lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Markus Welscher, Ray Steven Spratt
  • Publication number: 20210405393
    Abstract: A family of spectacle lenses is provided in which each spectacle lens is configured to achieve a specified prescriptive spherical power from among a number of prescriptive spherical powers and a specified prescriptive astigmatic power from among a number of prescriptive astigmatic powers. Each spectacle lens has a specified rotationally symmetrical spectacle-lens front face, a specified atoric spectacle-lens rear face, and in at least one principal section, such a deviation in the curvature from the circular form that, for a value for the distance between the vertex of the spectacle lens rear face and the pivot point of the eye, which lies in a range between 15 and 40 mm, at any point in a spectacle lens region within a radius of 25 mm about the geometrical center of the spectacle lens, an upper limit of the total deviation of the power is not exceeded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventor: Markus Welscher
  • Patent number: 11199726
    Abstract: A family of spectacle lenses is provided in which each spectacle lens is configured to achieve a specified prescriptive spherical power from among a number of prescriptive spherical powers and a specified prescriptive astigmatic power from among a number of prescriptive astigmatic powers. Each spectacle lens has a specified rotationally symmetrical spectacle-lens front face, a specified atoric spectacle-lens rear face, and in at least one principal section, such a deviation in the curvature from the circular form that, for a value for the distance between the vertex of the spectacle lens rear face and the pivot point of the eye, which lies in a range between 15 and 40 mm, at any point in a spectacle lens region within a radius of 25 mm about the geometrical center of the spectacle lens, an upper limit of the total deviation of the power is not exceeded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventor: Markus Welscher
  • Publication number: 20210263341
    Abstract: A family of spectacle lenses is provided in which each spectacle lens is configured to achieve a specified prescriptive spherical power from among a number of prescriptive spherical powers and a specified prescriptive astigmatic power from among a number of prescriptive astigmatic powers. Each spectacle lens has a specified rotationally symmetrical spectacle-lens front face, a specified atoric spectacle-lens rear face, and in at least one principal section, such a deviation in the curvature from the circular form that, for a value for the distance between the vertex of the spectacle lens rear face and the pivot point of the eye, which lies in a range between 15 and 40 mm, at any point in a spectacle lens region within a radius of 25 mm about the geometrical center of the spectacle lens, an upper limit of the total deviation of the power is not exceeded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventor: Markus Welscher
  • Publication number: 20210117588
    Abstract: A target design is produced with a computer-implemented method that takes into consideration an astigmatic effect and is suitable for optimizing a spectacle lens having the astigmatic effect. The method includes providing an initial target design that does not directly take into consideration the astigmatic effect of the spectacle lens, and producing the target design by correcting the initial target design on the basis of a correction target design that directly takes into consideration the astigmatic effect of the spectacle lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventor: Markus Welscher
  • Publication number: 20200050020
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of determining a base curve value representing a base curve for a front surface of a spectacle lens is disclosed. The method includes receiving individual prescription data and determining the base curve value for the front surface of the spectacle lens based on the prescription data. In particular, the base curve value is calculated from the received prescription data based on a functional relationship between one or more values included in the prescription data and the base curve value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Markus Welscher, Helmut Wietschorke, Ralf-Roland Sauer, Christoph Winter
  • Publication number: 20180307058
    Abstract: A computer implemented method of determining a base curve value representing a base curve for a front surface of a spectacle lens comprises the steps of receiving individual prescription data and determining the base curve value for the front surface of the spectacle lens based on the prescription data. The base curve value is calculated from the received prescription data based on a functional relationship between one or more values included in the prescription data and the base curve value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Markus Welscher, Helmut Wietschorke, Ralf-Roland Sauer, Christoph Winter
  • Patent number: 10007128
    Abstract: A device and a method for establishing a target design are disclosed. A generator generates a graphical representation of a starting target design and displays it on a display. A user directly manipulates a graphical representation of the starting target design displayed on the display through the graphical user interface. The graphical representation of the manipulated starting target design is updated and displayed on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Welscher, Ralf-Roland Sauer, Christoph Winter, Ray Steven Spratt
  • Patent number: 8205987
    Abstract: The current invention is directed to a method for designing an ophthalmic lens element, the method comprising the steps of determining a wavefront aberration of an eye in a reference plane, wherein the wavefront aberration of the eye can be described by a first series of polynomials of ascending order up to a first specific order and corresponding first coefficients; determining a first vision correction of a second specific order; determining at least one specific point over an aperture of the adapted ophthalmic lens element; determining a high-order wavefront aberration in the reference plane for each specified point of the adapted ophthalmic lens element, wherein the high-order wavefront aberration can be described by a third series of polynomials of ascending order above the second specific order up to and including the first specific order and corresponding third coefficients; and determining a second vision correction of the second specific order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignees: Carl Zeiss Vision Inc., Carl Zeiss Vision GmbH
    Inventors: Darryl Meister, Timo Kratzer, Jesús Miguel Cabeza Guillén, Ray Steven Spratt, Markus Welscher, Gerhard Kelch, Helmut Wietschorke
  • Publication number: 20110255052
    Abstract: The current invention is directed to a method for designing an ophthalmic lens element, the method comprising the steps of determining a wavefront aberration of an eye in a reference plane, wherein the wavefront aberration of the eye can be described by a first series of polynomials of ascending order up to a first specific order and corresponding first coefficients; and determining a first vision correction of a second specific order to obtain an adapted ophthalmic lens element; determining at least one specified point over an aperture of the adapted ophthalmic lens element; determining a high-order wavefront aberration in the reference plane for each specified point of the adapted ophthalmic lens element, wherein the high-order wavefront aberration can be described by a third series of polynomials of ascending order above the second specific order up to and including the first specific order and corresponding third coefficients; determining a second vision correction of the second specific order for each of
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Inventors: Darryl MEISTER, Timo Kratzer, Jesús Miguel Cabeza Guillén, Ray Steven Spratt, Markus Welscher, Gerhard Kelch, Helmut Wietschorke
  • Patent number: 7556381
    Abstract: In a method for producing a lens, in particular a spectacle lens, central aberrations of an eye, to be corrected, of an ametropic person, such as sphere, cylinder and axis, are compensated. At least one refracting surface of the lens is configured such that for at least one direction of view both a dioptric correction of the ametropia is performed and aberrations of higher order are corrected. Their effects on the visual acuity and/or the contrast viewing are a function of the size of the pupillary aperture of the eye to be corrected and are corrected by the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Inventors: Gerhard Kelch, Timo Kratzer, Markus Welscher, Helmut Wietschorke
  • Publication number: 20050259222
    Abstract: In a method for producing a lens (2), in particular a spectacle lens, central aberrations of an eye (1), to be corrected, of an ametropic person, such as sphere, cylinder and axis, are compensated. At least one refracting surface (9, 10) of the lens (2) is configured such that for at least one direction of view both a dioptric correction of the ametropia is performed and aberrations of higher order are corrected. Their effects on the visual acuity and/or the contrast viewing are a function of the size of the pupillary aperture (5) of the eye (1) to be corrected and are corrected by the lens (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2003
    Publication date: November 24, 2005
    Inventors: Gerhard Kelch, Timo Kratzer, Markus Welscher, Helmut Wietschorke