Patents by Inventor Michele L. Neil

Michele L. Neil 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).

  • Contact lens containing a leachable absorbed material
    Patent number: 5723131
    Abstract: A contact lens made of a polymeric hydrogel material having absorbed therein as a leachable additive of desferrioxamine, and a method for making the composition by soaking the polymeric material in a solution of the additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Clyde L. Schultz, Ivan M. Nunez, David L. Silor, Michele L. Neil
  • Contact lenses from highly permeable siloxane polyol material
    Patent number: 5648402
    Abstract: The present invention provides soft contact lenses adopted for placement over the cornea or in the eye which have a high oxygen permeability, a low water content and excellent mechanical properties. Moreover, the lenses of the instant invention have excellent protein and lipid deposition resistance relative to conventional contact lenses. Such lenses having the properties mentioned above comprises a prepolymer which contains an alkoxylate glucoside that is derivatized with at least one polysiloxane compound. The prepolymer is then placed in a suitable mold and polymerized by exposure to ultraviolet light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Inventors: Ivan M. Nunez, Frank F. Molock, Laura D. Elliott, Michele L. Neil, James D. Ford