Patents by Inventor Michael A. Southard
Michael A. Southard 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).
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Publication number: 20160074153Abstract: A toric intraocular lens is configured for enhanced stability after implantation into a capsular bag of an eye. The intraocular lens has one or more haptics extending from the lens, with stabilization enhanced by configuring the lens to include at least one engagement element configured to cooperate with the interior to the capsular bag to resist relative rotation of the lens. In one aspect of the invention, the engagement element can be provided in the form of one or more rotation-inhibiting projections provided on the lens body and/or the haptics of the lens. In another aspect of the invention, the lens includes an anterior surface which is configured to provide enhanced frictional engagement of the intraocular lens with the interior of the eye. The anterior surface of the lens can be roughened in order to provide the desired frictional engagement.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2015Publication date: March 17, 2016Applicant: ART, LIMITEDInventors: Takayuki Akahoshi, Michael Southard
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Publication number: 20150181858Abstract: A portable apparatus for the collection of bedbugs, their eggs, their larvae, their debris, and their feces has a vacuum-producing motor disposed within a housing. A collection port is used to draw the bedbugs into the housing along a flow path to a collection chamber featuring a variable environment sufficient to kill the bedbugs. The collection chamber can be heated or cooled, can contain insecticidal substances, or ultraviolet radiation sufficient for killing the collected bedbugs. The flow rate and temperature ranges are adjustable to create sufficient heat and time of contact to kill selected organisms. The apparatus is especially useful for treating bedbug infestations in their natural environment without the need for toxic chemicals, long-term treatments that make the space being treated uninhabitable and other more extreme treatment regimens.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2015Publication date: July 2, 2015Inventor: Michael Southard
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Patent number: 9010017Abstract: A collector of adult insects, their eggs and larvae has a vacuum-producing motor disposed within a housing. An inlet nozzle is used to draw the targeted organisms into the housing along a flow path featuring grids heated to a degree sufficient to kill the organisms. Mechanical expedients such as fan blades can be disposed in the flow path to apply mechanical killing forces and to blow debris off of adjacent grids. The organisms are directed to a collector which can be heated and which can contain insecticidal substances to provide additional killing expedients for the collected organisms. The flow rate and temperature ranges are adjustable to create sufficient heat and time of contact to kill selected organisms. The collector is especially useful for treating bedbug infestations without the need for toxic chemicals, long-term treatments which make the space being treated uninhabitable and other more extreme treatment regimens.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2011Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Inventor: Michael Southard
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Publication number: 20140013655Abstract: A collector of adult insects, their eggs and larvae has a vacuum-producing motor disposed within a housing. An inlet nozzle is used to draw the targeted organisms into the housing along a flow path featuring grids heated to a degree sufficient to kill the organisms. Mechanicla expedients such as fan blades can be disposed in the flow path to apply mechanical killing forces and to blow debris off of adjacent grids. The organisms are directed to a collector which can be heated and which can contain insecticidal substances to provide additional killing expedients for the collected organisms. The flow rate and temperature ranges are adjustable to create sufficient heat and time of contact to kill selected organisms. The collector is especially useful for treating bedbug infestations without the need for toxic chemicals, long-term treatments which make the space being treated uninhabitable and other more extreme treatment regimens.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2011Publication date: January 16, 2014Inventor: Michael Southard
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Patent number: 8262728Abstract: An intraocular lens device that includes an intraocular lens optics that provides at least two powers of magnification one being near vision power and the other being distance vision power. The lens optics has surface modulations that are responsible for providing the near vision power. The zone structure provides an add power of over 6 diopters. The add power indicative of an extent that the near vision focusing power is greater than the distance vision focusing power.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2010Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Novartis, AGInventors: Xiaoxiao Zhang, Richard J. Mackool, Xin Hong, Michael A. Southard
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Publication number: 20100286771Abstract: An intraocular lens device that includes an intraocular lens optics that provides at least two powers of magnification one being near vision power and the other being distance vision power. The lens optics has surface modulations that are responsible for providing the near vision power. The zone structure provides an add power of over 6 diopters. The add power indicative of an extent that the near vision focusing power is greater than the distance vision focusing power.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2010Publication date: November 11, 2010Inventors: Xiaoxiao Zhang, Richard J. Mackool, Xin Hong, Michael A. Southard
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Publication number: 20090060854Abstract: A topically-applied composition for the treatment of the dermal and subcutaneous skin layers combines selected sulfonated glycosaminoglycans and two anti-oxidizing compounds in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. A constituent to treat damage due to ultraviolet A and/or B light can be added to the composition. Differing formulations are provided for daytime and evening application.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2008Publication date: March 5, 2009Inventor: Michael Southard
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Publication number: 20070182917Abstract: An intraocular lens device that includes an intraocular lens optics that provides at least two powers of magnification one being near vision power and the other being distance vision power. The lens optics has surface modulations that are responsible for providing the near vision power. The zone structure provides an add power of over 6 diopters. The add power indicative of an extent that the near vision focusing power is greater than the distance vision focusing power.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2006Publication date: August 9, 2007Inventors: Xiaoxiao Zhang, Richard Mackool, Xin Hong, Michael Southard
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Patent number: 6648223Abstract: A surgical system console having an electronic identification system, such as a bar code scanner, magnetic reader or other sensing device (e.g., optical, magnetic or other system) system that works in conjunction with a unique identifier on the surgical pak so as to identify the contents of the pak to the surgical console control (e.g., CPU). That information can be used for a variety of further activities, such as inventory management, product usage, traceability, patient billing, collection of statistical data, OR support, automatic setting of the surgical operating parameters by the surgical console, servicing and to print out the contents of the surgical pak on a list or any other recordable media (e.g., DVD, CD-ROM, floppy disk, hard drive, ZIP drive.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2002Date of Patent: November 18, 2003Assignee: Alcon, Inc.Inventors: Mikhail Boukhny, Bruno Dacquay, Douglas M. Fanney, Michael A. Southard, David Thoe
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Patent number: 6641039Abstract: A surgical system console having an electronic identification system, such as a bar code scanner, magnetic reader or other optical or magnetic system that works in conjunction with a unique identifier on the surgical pak so as to identify the contents of the pak to the surgical system console control CPU and to print out the contents of the surgical pak on a list.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2002Date of Patent: November 4, 2003Assignee: Alcon, Inc.Inventor: Michael A. Southard
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Publication number: 20030204257Abstract: A foldable lens having a reinforced haptic/optic intersection that allows the optic to vault posteriorly unidirectionally while still providing stable fixation of the lens within the eye.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2002Publication date: October 30, 2003Inventor: Michael A. Southard
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Publication number: 20030178489Abstract: A surgical system console having an electronic identification system, such as a bar code scanner, magnetic reader or other sensing means (e.g., optical, magnetic or other system) system that works in conjunction with a unique identifier on the surgical pak so as to identify the contents of the pak to the surgical console control (e.g., CPU). That information can be used for a variety of further activities, such as inventory management, product usage, traceability, patient billing, collection of statistical data, OR support, automatic setting of the surgical operating parameters by the surgical console, servicing and to print out the contents of the surgical pak on a list or any other recordable media (e.g., DVD, CD-ROM, floppy disk, hard drive, ZIP drive.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2002Publication date: September 25, 2003Inventors: Mikhail Boukhny, Bruno Dacquay, Douglas M. Fanney, Michael A. Southard, David Thoe
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Publication number: 20030178488Abstract: A surgical system console having an electronic identification system, such as a bar code scanner, magnetic reader or other optical or magnetic system that works in conjunction with a unique identifier on the surgical pak so as to identify the contents of the pak to the surgical system console control CPU and to print out the contents of the surgical pak on a list.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2002Publication date: September 25, 2003Inventor: Michael A. Southard
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Patent number: 5197981Abstract: A one-piece polymethylmethacrylate intraocular lens having an optic with an optic profile and a pair of haptics each extending from the optic within the optic profile and each with a medial segment of variably reduced cross-sectional area.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 1992Date of Patent: March 30, 1993Assignee: Alcon Surgical, Inc.Inventor: Michael A. Southard
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Patent number: D1018583Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Innovator Capital Management, LLCInventors: H. Bruce Bond, John Southard, Graham Day, Michael Wiederholt, Matthew Kaufman, Anna Murnighan