Patents by Inventor Patricia A. Piers
Patricia A. Piers 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: 20240130851Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved ophthalmic lenses, particularly intraocular lenses (IOLs), include features for providing improved extended depth of focus lenses. Exemplary ophthalmic lenses can include an optic including a diffractive profile including at least one set of echelettes, each echelette of the set having a different width in r-squared space than any other echelette of the set and the at least one set of echelettes repeating at least once upon the optic.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Franck Gounou, Hendrik A. Weeber, Robert Rosen, Carmen Canovas Vidal, Patricia A. Piers
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Patent number: 11844689Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved ophthalmic lenses, particularly intraocular lenses (IOLs), include features for providing improved extended depth of focus lenses. Exemplary ophthalmic lenses can include an optic including a diffractive profile including at least one set of echelettes, each echelette of the set having a different width in r-squared space than any other echelette of the set and the at least one set of echelettes repeating at least once upon the optic.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: AMO Groningen B.V.Inventors: Franck Gounou, Hendrik A. Weeber, Robert Rosen, Carmen Canovas Vidal, Patricia A. Piers
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Patent number: 11819401Abstract: Intraocular lenses with a base optical power and a customized add power. The add power is customized based on at least one of ocular biometry of an individual, position of the intraocular lens in the eye and a preferred reading distance.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: AMO Groningen B.V.Inventors: Carmen Canovas Vidal, Robert Rosén, Marrie Van Der Mooren, Patricia A. Piers
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Publication number: 20230190451Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved ophthalmic lenses, particularly intraocular lenses (IOLs), include features for reducing adverse optical effects from diffractive profiles of such a lens. Exemplary ophthalmic lenses can include an optic including a diffractive profile including a transition zone having a parabolic shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Aixa ALARCON HEREDIA, Miguel FARIA RIBEIRO, Franck GOUNOU, Patricia A. PIERS, Hendrik WEEBER, Carmen CANOVAS VIDAL, Robert ROSEN
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Publication number: 20230172705Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved ophthalmic lenses, particularly intraocular lenses (IOLs), include features for providing improved extended depth of focus lenses. Exemplary ophthalmic lenses can include an optic including a diffractive profile including multiple rings, with the rings having step heights corresponding to a desired performance of the optic and configured to reduce adverse optical effects of the diffractive profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2022Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Aixa ALARCON HEREDIA, Miguel FARIA RIBEIRO, Franck GOUNOU, Patricia A. PIERS, Hendrik WEEBER, Carmen CANOVAS VIDAL, Robert ROSEN
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Publication number: 20230073059Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved ophthalmic lenses, particularly intraocular lenses (IOLs), include features for reducing adverse optical effects from diffractive profiles of such a lens. Exemplary ophthalmic lenses can include an optic including a diffractive profile including a transition zone having an elevated surface roughness.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: AMO Groningen B.V.Inventors: Hendrik A. Weeber, Aixa Alarcon Heredia, Carmen Canovas Vidal, Franck Gounou, Patricia A. Piers, Miguel Faria Ribeiro
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Publication number: 20220211488Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods directed to reducing negative dysphotopsia in an individual's eye. Such apparatuses, systems, and methods may include determining an angle kappa of an individual's eye. Such apparatuses, systems, and methods further include tilt adjustable intraocular lenses.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2021Publication date: July 7, 2022Inventors: Aixa Alarcon Heredia, Robert Rosen, Mihai State, Patricia A. Piers
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Publication number: 20210251743Abstract: Intraocular lenses with a base optical power and a customized add power. The add power is customized based on at least one of ocular biometry of an individual, position of the intraocular lens in the eye and a preferred reading distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2021Publication date: August 19, 2021Inventors: Carmen Canovas Vidal, Robert Rosén, Marrie Van Der Mooren, Patricia A. Piers
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Publication number: 20210196452Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved ophthalmic lenses, particularly intraocular lenses (IOLs), include features for providing improved extended depth of focus lenses. Exemplary ophthalmic lenses can include an optic including a diffractive profile including at least one set of echelettes, each echelette of the set having a different width in r-squared space than any other echelette of the set and the at least one set of echelettes repeating at least once upon the optic.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2020Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Franck Gounou, Hendrik A. Weeber, Robert Rosen, Carmen Canovas Vidal, Patricia A. Piers
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Patent number: 11000362Abstract: Intraocular lenses with a base optical power and a customized add power. The add power is customized based on at least one of ocular biometry of an individual, position of the intraocular lens in the eye and a preferred reading distance.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2018Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: AMO Groningen B.V.Inventors: Carmen Canovas Vidal, Robert Rosén, Marrie Van Der Mooren, Patricia A. Piers
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Publication number: 20190076240Abstract: Intraocular lenses with a base optical power and a customized add power. The add power is customized based on at least one of ocular biometry of an individual, position of the intraocular lens in the eye and a preferred reading distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventors: Carmen Canovas Vidal, Robert Rosén, Marrie Van Der Mooren, Patricia A. Piers
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Patent number: 9724190Abstract: System and method for customizing multifocal ophthalmic lenses, such as an intraocular lens (IOL) or the like, that may be tailored for an individual patient or group of patients beyond the selection of a particular IOL power. One or more eye factors of the patient are determined, a set of different multifocal intraocular lenses having a similar base power are determined based on the eye factors, and a multifocal intraocular lens is selected for the patient from the set based on the eye factors.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2010Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: AMO Groningen B.V.Inventors: Henk A. Weeber, Patricia A. Piers, Marrie H. Van der Mooren
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Publication number: 20170213306Abstract: System and method for customizing multifocal ophthalmic lenses, such as an intraocular lens (IOL) or the like, that may be tailored for an individual patient or group of patients beyond the selection of a particular IOL power. One or more eye factors of the patient are determined, a set of different multifocal intraocular lenses having a similar base power are determined based on the eye factors, and a multifocal intraocular lens is selected for the patient from the set based on the eye factors.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2010Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Henk A. Weeber, Patricia A. Piers, Marrie H. Van der Mooren
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Patent number: 9122074Abstract: A system of ophthalmic lenses contains a first lens for a first eye of a subject and a second lens for a second eye of a subject. The first lens includes a first lens shape having a first base refractive power and a first diffractive pattern imposed on the first lens shape, the diffractive pattern having a first lower diffraction order with a first lower diffractive power and a first higher diffraction order with a first higher diffractive power. The first lens includes lower and higher optical powers equal to the first base refractive power plus the first lower and higher diffractive powers, respectively. The second lens includes a second lens shape having a second base refractive power and a second diffractive pattern imposed on the second lens shape, the second diffractive pattern having a second lower diffraction order with a second lower diffractive power and a second higher diffraction order with a second higher diffractive power.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2014Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: AMO GRONINGEN B.V.Inventors: Patricia A Piers, Hendrik A Weeber, Marrie H Van Der Mooren
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Patent number: 8801781Abstract: When fitting a patient for an intraocular lens, a series of measurements is taken on the patient's eye that determines a required lens power. Next, a range of preferred shape factors may be found, which determine the base (i.e., spherical) radii of the two lens surfaces, essentially independent of the lens power. The preferred shape factor adjusts the third-order coma of the lens to largely offset the coma of the cornea, so that the image at the retina has a reduced amount of third-order coma. Once a preferred shape factor is determined, the base radii of curvature of the anterior and posterior surfaces are determined from the shape factor and the lens power by algebraic formulas. Finally, one or more aspheric terms are added to one or both of the surfaces in the lens, so that the spherical aberration of the lens largely offsets the spherical aberration of the cornea.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2005Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Abbott Medical Optics Inc.Inventors: Juan Tabernero, Pablo Artal, Patricia Piers
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Publication number: 20140118684Abstract: A system of ophthalmic lenses contains a first lens for a first eye of a subject and a second lens for a second eye of a subject. The first lens includes a first lens shape having a first base refractive power and a first diffractive pattern imposed on the first lens shape, the diffractive pattern having a first lower diffraction order with a first lower diffractive power and a first higher diffraction order with a first higher diffractive power. The first lens includes lower and higher optical powers equal to the first base refractive power plus the first lower and higher diffractive powers, respectively. The second lens includes a second lens shape having a second base refractive power and a second diffractive pattern imposed on the second lens shape, the second diffractive pattern having a second lower diffraction order with a second lower diffractive power and a second higher diffraction order with a second higher diffractive power.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2014Publication date: May 1, 2014Inventors: Patricia A. Piers, Hendrik A. Weeber, Marrie H. Van Der Mooren
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Patent number: 8623083Abstract: A system of ophthalmic lenses contains a first lens for a first eye of a subject and a second lens for a second eye of a subject. The first lens includes a first lens shape having a first base refractive power and a first diffractive pattern imposed on the first lens shape, the diffractive pattern having a first lower diffraction order with a first lower diffractive power and a first higher diffraction order with a first higher diffractive power. The first lens includes lower and higher optical powers equal to the first base refractive power plus the first lower and higher diffractive powers, respectively. The second lens includes a second lens shape having a second base refractive power and a second diffractive pattern imposed on the second lens shape, the second diffractive pattern having a second lower diffraction order with a second lower diffractive power and a second higher diffraction order with a second higher diffractive power.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2009Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: AMO Groningen B.V.Inventors: Patricia A Piers, Hendrik A Weeber, Marrie H Van Der Mooren
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Publication number: 20110109874Abstract: A system of ophthalmic lenses contains a first lens for a first eye of a subject and a second lens for a second eye of a subject. The first lens includes a first lens shape having a first base refractive power and a first diffractive pattern imposed on the first lens shape, the diffractive pattern having a first lower diffraction order with a first lower diffractive power and a first higher diffraction order with a first higher diffractive power. The first lens includes lower and higher optical powers equal to the first base refractive power plus the first lower and higher diffractive powers, respectively. The second lens includes a second lens shape having a second base refractive power and a second diffractive pattern imposed on the second lens shape, the second diffractive pattern having a second lower diffraction order with a second lower diffractive power and a second higher diffraction order with a second higher diffractive power.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2009Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: AMO Groningen B.V.Inventors: Patricia A. Piers, Hendrik A. Weeber, Marrie Van Der Mooren
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Publication number: 20100281021Abstract: System and method for customizing multifocal ophthalmic lenses, such as an intraocular lens (IOL) or the like, that may be tailored for an individual patient or group of patients beyond the selection of a particular IOL power. One or more eye factors of the patient are determined, a set of different multifocal intraocular lenses having a similar base power are determined based on the eye factors, and a multifocal intraocular lens is selected for the patient from the set based on the eye factors.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2010Publication date: November 4, 2010Inventors: Henk A. Weeber, Patricia A. Piers, Marrie H. Van der Mooren
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Patent number: 7677725Abstract: A method of designing an aspheric ophthalmic lens with both refractive and diffractive powers that is capable of reducing chromatic aberration and at least one monochromatic aberration of an eye comprises combining aspherical refractive and diffractive surfaces, selecting an appropriate eye model, establishing a design lens having at least one aspheric surface with a capacity to reduce monochromatic aberration in said eye model, establishing a diffractive lens element that corrects for chromatic aberration of the model eye; and adjusting the lens surface design in order to obtain a suitably high polychromatic image quality in a form that is weighted to comply with a spectral merit function.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2005Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: AMO Groningen B.V.Inventors: Patricia Piers, Henk Weeber