Patents by Inventor Noel A. Brennan

Noel A. Brennan 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).

  • Publication number: 20170115509
    Abstract: Contact lenses incorporate high plus or ADD power profiles that at least one of slow, retard or preventing myopia progression and minimize halo effect. The lens includes a center zone with an ADD power for myopia progression treatment and at least one myopia vision correction power in a peripheral region surrounding the center zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Noel A. Brennan, Xu Cheng, Michael J. Collins, Brett A. Davis, Jaclyn Hernandez, C. Benjamin Wooley, Fan Yi
  • Patent number: 9625739
    Abstract: A lens includes a center of the ophthalmic lens having a negative power that provides foveal vision correction for myopia; a first peripheral zone surrounding the center having a power that gradually increases to a first peak having a dioptric power that is more positive than at the center; and a second peripheral zone surrounding the first peripheral zone and having a second peak having a dioptric power that is more positive than at the center and that is different than the power at the first peak. The power profile slows, retards, or prevents myopia progression independent of pupil size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Noel A. Brennan, Khaled A. Chehab, Michael J. Collins, Xin Wei
  • Patent number: 9594259
    Abstract: Contact lenses incorporate mask lens designs that at least one of slow, retard or preventing myopia progression. The lens includes a first zone at a center of the lens; at least one peripheral zone surrounding the center and having a dioptric power that is different than that at the center; and an opaque mask beginning at a radial distance from the center, thereby providing a lens power profile having substantially equivalent foveal vision correction to a single vision lens, and having a depth of focus and reduced retinal image quality sensitivity that slows, retards, or prevents myopia progression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Noel A. Brennan, Khaled A. Chehab, Xu Cheng, Kurt John Moody, Jeffrey H. Roffman, Xin Wei
  • Publication number: 20160377884
    Abstract: Contact lenses incorporating an array of non-coaxial lenslets with add power that create non-coaxial myopic defocus within the optic zone of the lens may be utilized to prevent and/or slow myopia progression. The positive, non-coaxial lenslets cover about twenty to eighty percent of the central pupil area to deliver positive foci of light in front of the retina to slow the rate of myopia progression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Manwai Charis Lau, Noel Brennan, Khaled Chehab, Xu Cheng, Michael Collins, Brett Davis, Eric R. Ritchey, Fan Yi
  • Patent number: 9417463
    Abstract: Contact lenses incorporate power profiles that minimize visual acuity variation for progressing myopes based upon minimization of the variation of neural sharpness image quality over a specific time period. The contact lens includes a center and at least one peripheral zone surrounding the center and having a different dioptric power than at the center. The lens has power profile selected from the group consisting of a power profile with spherical aberration, a multifocal power profile, a freeform power profile, and a segmented freeform power profile. The power profile is based on an initial paraxial power of a myopia progressor and a defined myopia progression rate over a specific time period, resulting in controlled change of the neural sharpness, thereby minimizing changes in changes in visual acuity at a beginning of the time period and at an end of the time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Noel A. Brennan, Khaled A. Chehab, Jeffrey H. Roffman, Xin Wei
  • Patent number: 9389434
    Abstract: Contact lenses may be designed with locally thinned regions to increase oxygen transmissibility to the eye. The locally thinned regions are preferably positioned outside of the optic zone and in the thicker peripheral zone. For a contact lens formed from a specific material, creating local thinner regions, for example, dimples in the back curve surface of the lens, provides an effective and efficient means for increasing oxygen diffusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Philippe F. Jubin, Pierre-Yves Gerligand, Fang Yuan, Radhakrishnan Damodharan, Noel A. Brennan
  • Publication number: 20160062145
    Abstract: Contact lenses incorporate mask lens designs that at least one of slow, retard or preventing myopia progression. The lens includes a first zone at a center of the lens; at least one peripheral zone surrounding the center and having a dioptric power that is different than that at the center; and an opaque mask beginning at a radial distance from the center, thereby providing a lens power profile having substantially equivalent foveal vision correction to a single vision lens, and having a depth of focus and reduced retinal image quality sensitivity that slows, retards, or prevents myopia progression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Noel A. Brennan, Khaled A. Chehab, Xu Cheng, Kurt John Moody, Jeffrey H. Roffman, Xin Wei
  • Publication number: 20160062144
    Abstract: Lenses incorporate freeform power profiles that at least one of slow, retard or preventing myopia progression. An ophthalmic lens includes a first zone at a center of the lens; a first peripheral region continuously extending from the center, the first peripheral region having a different dioptric power than at the center; and a second peripheral region continuously extending from the first peripheral region and having a different dioptric power than the first peripheral region, thereby providing a continuous freeform power profile having substantially equivalent visual performance to a single vision lens, and having a depth of focus and reduced retinal image quality sensitivity that slows, retards, or prevents myopia progression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Noel A. Brennan, Khaled A. Chehab, Xu Cheng, Kurt John Moody, Jeffrey H. Roffman, Xin Wei
  • Publication number: 20160062143
    Abstract: Contact lenses incorporate multifocal power profiles that at least one of slow, retard or preventing myopia progression. The lens includes a first zone at a center of the ophthalmic lens and at least one peripheral zone surrounding the first zone. The at least one peripheral zone has a different width and dioptric power than the first zone. The first zone and at least one peripheral zone are stepped or discontinuous. The multifocal power profile has substantially equivalent foveal vision correction to a single vision lens and has a depth of focus and reduced retinal image quality sensitivity that slows, retards, or prevents myopia progression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Noel A. Brennan, Khaled A. Chehab, Xu Cheng, Kurt John Moody, Xin Wei
  • Publication number: 20160054586
    Abstract: Contact lenses incorporate power profiles that minimize visual acuity variation for progressing myopes based upon minimization of the variation of neural sharpness image quality over a specific time period. The contact lens includes a center and at least one peripheral zone surrounding the center and having a different dioptric power than at the center. The lens has power profile selected from the group consisting of a power profile with spherical aberration, a multifocal power profile, a freeform power profile, and a segmented freeform power profile. The power profile is based on an initial paraxial power of a myopia progressor and a defined myopia progression rate over a specific time period, resulting in controlled change of the neural sharpness, thereby minimizing changes in changes in visual acuity at a beginning of the time period and at an end of the time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Noel A. Brennan, Khaled A. Chehab, Jeffrey H. Roffman, Xin Wei
  • Publication number: 20160054587
    Abstract: A lens includes a center of the ophthalmic lens having a negative power that provides foveal vision correction for myopia; a first peripheral zone surrounding the center having a power that gradually increases to a first peak having a dioptric power that is more positive than at the center; and a second peripheral zone surrounding the first peripheral zone and having a second peak having a dioptric power that is more positive than at the center and that is different than the power at the first peak. The power profile slows, retards, or prevents myopia progression independent of pupil size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Noel A. Brennan, Khaled A. Chehab, Michael J. Collins, Xin Wei
  • Publication number: 20160054588
    Abstract: Contact lenses incorporate high plus or add power profiles that at least one of slow, retard or preventing myopia progression and minimize halo effect. The lens includes a center zone with a negative power for myopic vision correction; and at least one treatment zone surrounding the center zone, the at least one treatment zone having a power profile that increases from an outer margin of the center zone to a positive power within the at least one treatment zone of greater than +5.00 D.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Noel A. Brennan, Khaled A. Chehab, Xu Cheng, Michael J. Collins, Manwai Charis Lau, Eric R. Ritchey, Xin Wei
  • Publication number: 20150146160
    Abstract: Contact lenses may be designed with locally thinned regions to increase oxygen transmissibility to the eye. The locally thinned regions are preferably positioned outside of the optic zone and in the thicker peripheral zone. For a contact lens formed from a specific material, creating local thinner regions, for example, dimples in the back curve surface of the lens, provides an effective and efficient means for increasing oxygen diffusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Philippe F. Jubin, Pierre-Yves Gerligand, Fang Yuan, Radhakrishnan Damodharan, Noel A. Brennan
  • Patent number: 8998408
    Abstract: Contact lenses incorporating asymmetric radial power profiles that increase the radial dioptric power from the center to the margin of the optical zone of the lenses may be utilized to prevent and/or slow myopia progression. The power profiles vary along different meridians.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Wei, Noel A. Brennan, Khaled A. Chehab, Jeffrey H. Roffman, C. Benjamin Wooley
  • Publication number: 20140211147
    Abstract: Contact lenses incorporating asymmetric radial power profiles that increase the radial dioptric power from the center to the margin of the optical zone of the lenses may be utilized to prevent and/or slow myopia progression. The power profiles vary along different meridians.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Wei, Noel A. Brennan, Khaled A. Chehab, Jeffrey H. Roffman, C. Benjamin Wooley