Patents by Inventor Patricia Ann Piers

Patricia Ann 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).

  • Patent number: 10085833
    Abstract: A method of designing a multifocal ophthalmic lens with one base focus and at least one additional focus, capable of reducing aberrations of the eye for at least one of the foci after its implantation, comprising the steps of: (i) characterizing at least one corneal surface as a mathematical model; (ii) calculating the resulting aberrations of said corneal surface(s) by employing said mathematical model; (iii) modelling the multifocal ophthalmic lens such that a wavefront arriving from an optical system comprising said lens and said at least one corneal surface obtains reduced aberrations for at least one of the foci. There is also disclosed a method of selecting a multifocal intraocular lens, a method of designing a multifocal ophthalmic lens based on corneal data from a group of patients, and a multifocal ophthalmic lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: AMO Groningen B.V.
    Inventors: Patricia Ann Piers, Hendrik A. Weeber, Sverker Norrby
  • Publication number: 20180263760
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved ophthalmic lenses, particularly intraocular lenses (IOLs). Exemplary diffractive intraocular implants (IOLs) can include a diffractive profile having multiple diffractive zones. The diffractive zones can include a central zone that includes one or more echelettes and a peripheral zone beyond the central zone having one or more peripheral echelettes. The central diffractive zone can work in a higher diffractive order than a remainder of the diffractive profile. The combination of the central and peripheral zones and an optional intermediate zone provides a longer depth of focus than a diffractive profile defined just by a peripheral and/or optional intermediate zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Carmen Cánovas Vidal, Hendrik A. Weeber, Patricia Ann Piers
  • Patent number: 10034745
    Abstract: System, ophthalmic lens, and method for extending depth of focus includes an optic having a clear aperture disposed about a central axis. The optic includes a first surface and an opposing second surface. The first and second surfaces are configured to introduce an asymmetric aberration to the eye while maintaining the in-focus visual acuity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: AMO GRONINGEN B.V.
    Inventors: Hendrik A. Weeber, Patricia Ann Piers, Pablo Artal, Silvestre Manzanera
  • Patent number: 10028825
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved intraocular lenses (IOLs), include features for reducing side effects, such as halos, glare and best focus shifts, in multifocal refractive lenses and extended depth of focus lenses. Exemplary ophthalmic lenses can include a continuous, power progressive aspheric surface based on two or more merged optical zones, the aspheric surface being defined by a single aspheric equation. Continuous power progressive intraocular lenses can mitigate optical side effects that typically result from abrupt optical steps. Aspheric power progressive and aspheric extended depth of focus lenses can be combined with diffractive lens profiles to further enhance visual performance while minimizing dysphotopsia effects. The combination can provide an increased depth of focus that is greater than an individual depth of focus of either the refractive profile or the diffractive profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: AMO Groningen B.V.
    Inventors: Carmen Canovas Vidal, Aixa Alarcon Heredia, Patricia Ann Piers, Hendrik A. Weeber
  • Patent number: 10016270
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for improving overall vision in patients suffering from a loss of vision in a portion of the retina (e.g., loss of central vision) by providing a dual optic intraocular lens which redirects and/or focuses light incident on the eye at oblique angles onto a peripheral retinal location. The intraocular lens can include a redirection element (e.g., a prism, a diffractive element, or an optical component with a decentered GRIN profile) configured to direct incident light along a deflected optical axis and to focus an image at a location on the peripheral retina. Optical properties of the intraocular lens can be configured to improve or reduce peripheral errors at the location on the peripheral retina. One or more surfaces of the intraocular lens can be a toric surface, a higher order aspheric surface, an aspheric Zernike surface or a Biconic Zernike surface to reduce optical errors in an image produced at a peripheral retinal location by light incident at oblique angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: AMO Groningen B.V.
    Inventors: Robert Rosen, Hendrik A. Weeber, Carmen Canovas Vidal, Marrie Van Der Mooren, Dora Sellitri, Patricia Ann Piers
  • Patent number: 10010407
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to devices, systems, and methods for improving or optimizing peripheral vision. In particular, methods are disclosed which include utilizing particular characteristics of the retina in improving or optimizing peripheral vision. Additionally, various IOL designs, as well as IOL implantation locations, are disclosed which improve or optimize peripheral vision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: AMO Groningen B.V.
    Inventors: Robert Rosen, Hendrik A Weeber, Carmen Canovas Vidal, Marrie H Van Der Mooren, Mihai State, Patricia Ann Piers, Aixa Alarcon Heredia
  • Patent number: 9931200
    Abstract: The present invention relates to devices, systems, and methods for optimizing peripheral vision. In particular, methods are disclosed which include utilizing particular characteristics of the retina in optimizing peripheral vision. Additionally, various IOL designs, as well as IOL implantation locations, are disclosed which optimize peripheral vision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: AMO GRONINGEN B.V.
    Inventors: Marrie Van Der Mooren, Carmen Canovas Vidal, Henk A. Weeber, Luuk Franssen, Kaccie Y. Li, Patricia Ann Piers
  • Publication number: 20180073958
    Abstract: A system and method of characterizing through-focus visual performance of an IOL using metrics based on an area under the modulation transfer function for different spatial frequencies at different defocus positions of the IOL. Also disclosed is a system and method of characterizing through-focus visual performance of an IOL using a metric based on an area under a cross-correlation coefficient for an image of a target acquired by the IOL at different defocus positions of the IOL.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Aixa ALARCON HEREDIA, Carmen CANOVAS VIDAL, Robert ROSÉN, Hendrik A. WEEBER, Patricia Ann PIERS
  • Patent number: 9823163
    Abstract: A system and method of characterizing through-focus visual performance of an IOL using metrics based on an area under the modulation transfer function for different spatial frequencies at different defocus positions of the IOL. Also disclosed is a system and method of characterizing through-focus visual performance of an IOL using a metric based on an area under a cross-correlation coefficient for an image of a target acquired by the IOL at different defocus positions of the IOL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: AMO GRONINGEN B.V.
    Inventors: Aixa Alarcon Heredia, Carmen Canovas Vidal, Robert Rosén, Hendrik A. Weeber, Patricia Ann Piers
  • Publication number: 20170325937
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Hendrik A. Weeber, Patricia Ann Piers, Marrie H. Van Der Mooren
  • Publication number: 20170258578
    Abstract: Lenses and methods are provided for improving peripheral and/or central vision for patients who suffer from certain retinal conditions that reduce central vision or patients who have undergone cataract surgery. The lens is configured to improve vision by having an optic configured to focus light incident along a direction parallel to an optical axis at the fovea in order to produce a functional foveal image. The optic is configured to focus light incident on the patient's eye at an oblique angle with respect to the optical axis at a peripheral retinal location disposed at a distance from the fovea, the peripheral retinal location having an eccentricity between ?30 degrees and 30 degrees. The image quality at the peripheral retinal location is improved by reducing at least one optical aberration at the peripheral retinal location. The method for improving vision utilizes ocular measurements to iteratively adjust the shape factor of the lens to reduce peripheral refractive errors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Robert Rosén, Franck Emmanuel Gounou, Hendrik A. Weeber, Carmen Canovas Vidal, Marrie H. Van Der Mooren, Mihai State, Patricia Ann Piers, Aixa Alarcon Heredia, Dora Sellitri
  • Publication number: 20170245987
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved intraocular lenses (IOLs), include features for reducing side effects, such as halos, glare and best focus shifts, in multifocal refractive lenses and extended depth of focus lenses. Exemplary ophthalmic lenses can include a continuous, power progressive aspheric surface based on two or more merged optical zones, the aspheric surface being defined by a single aspheric equation. Continuous power progressive intraocular lenses can mitigate optical side effects that typically result from abrupt optical steps. Aspheric power progressive and aspheric extended depth of focus lenses can be combined with diffractive lens profiles to further enhance visual performance while minimizing dysphotopsia effects. The combination can provide an increased depth of focus that is greater than an individual depth of focus of either the refractive profile or the diffractive profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Carmen Canovas Vidal, Aixa Alarcon Heredia, Patricia Ann Piers, Hendrik A. Weeber
  • Publication number: 20170245986
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved intraocular lenses (IOLs), include features for reducing side effects, such as halos, glare and best focus shifts, in multifocal refractive lenses and extended depth of focus lenses. Exemplary ophthalmic lenses can include a continuous, power progressive aspheric surface based on two or more merged optical zones, the aspheric surface being defined by a single aspheric equation. Continuous power progressive intraocular lenses can mitigate optical side effects that typically result from abrupt optical steps. Aspheric power progressive and aspheric extended depth of focus lenses can be combined with diffractive lens profiles to further enhance visual performance while minimizing dysphotopsia effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Carmen Canovas Vidal, Aixa Alarcon Heredia, Patricia Ann Piers, Hendrik A. Weeber
  • Publication number: 20170245985
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved intraocular lenses (IOLs), include features for reducing side effects, such as halos, glare and best focus shifts, in multifocal refractive lenses and extended depth of focus lenses. Exemplary ophthalmic lenses can include a continuous, power progressive aspheric surface based on two or more merged optical zones, the aspheric surface being defined by a single aspheric equation. Continuous power progressive intraocular lenses can mitigate optical side effects that typically result from abrupt optical steps. Aspheric power progressive and aspheric extended depth of focus lenses can be combined with diffractive lens profiles to further enhance visual performance while minimizing dysphotopsia effects. The combination can provide an increased depth of focus that is greater than an individual depth of focus of either the refractive profile or the diffractive profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Carmen Canovas Vidal, Aixa Alarcon Heredia, Patricia Ann Piers, Hendrik A. Weeber
  • Publication number: 20170231485
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for improving overall vision in patients suffering from a loss of vision in a portion of the retina (e.g., loss of central vision) by providing a dual optic intraocular lens which redirects and/or focuses light incident on the eye at oblique angles onto a peripheral retinal location. The intraocular lens can include a redirection element (e.g., a prism, a diffractive element, or an optical component with a decentered GRIN profile) configured to direct incident light along a deflected optical axis and to focus an image at a location on the peripheral retina. Optical properties of the intraocular lens can be configured to improve or reduce peripheral errors at the location on the peripheral retina. One or more surfaces of the intraocular lens can be a toric surface, a higher order aspheric surface, an aspheric Zernike surface or a Biconic Zernike surface to reduce optical errors in an image produced at a peripheral retinal location by light incident at oblique angles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Robert Rosen, Hendrik A. Weeber, Carmen Canovas Vidal, Marrie Van Der Mooren, Dora Sellitri, Patricia Ann Piers
  • Publication number: 20170224474
    Abstract: A method of designing a multifocal ophthalmic lens with one base focus and at least one additional focus, capable of reducing aberrations of the eye for at least one of the foci after its implantation, comprising the steps of: (i) characterizing at least one corneal surface as a mathematical model; (ii) calculating the resulting aberrations of said corneal surface(s) by employing said mathematical model; (iii) modelling the multifocal ophthalmic lens such that a wavefront arriving from an optical system comprising said lens and said at least one corneal surface obtains reduced aberrations for at least one of the foci. There is also disclosed a method of selecting a multifocal intraocular lens, a method of designing a multifocal ophthalmic lens based on corneal data from a group of patients, and a multifocal ophthalmic lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Patricia Ann Piers, Hendrik A. Weeber, Sverker Norrby
  • Publication number: 20170216020
    Abstract: An intraocular lens for providing a subject with vision at various distances includes an optic having a first surface with a first shape, an opposing second surface with a second shape, a multifocal refractive profile, and one or more diffractive portions. The optic may include at least one multifocal diffractive profile. In some embodiments, multifocal diffractive and the multifocal refractive profiles are disposed on different, distinct, or non-overlapping portions or apertures of the optic. Alternatively, portions of the multifocal diffractive profiles and the multifocal refractive profiles may overlap within a common aperture or zone of the optic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Hendrik A. Weeber, Patricia Ann Piers, Mark H. Bandhauer, Marrie H. Van Der Mooren, Huawei Zhao
  • Publication number: 20170209258
    Abstract: An intraocular lens (IOL), system, and method having a base lens and a complementary lens selected to form a curved image surface matching a retina surface when placed in an eye's line of sight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Kaccie Y. Li, Hendrik A. Weeber, Carmen Canovas Vidal, Patricia Ann Piers, Huawei Zhao, Robert Rosen
  • Publication number: 20170135570
    Abstract: Systems and methods for measuring dysphotopsia are provided. These systems and methods can be used to objectively quantify positive and negative dysphotopsia. One embodiment provides a system and method for determining dysphotopsia that uses a first light source configured to provide light energy to illuminate a model eye, a refractor for refracting the light energy from the first light source and directing it into the model eye, a first electronic light sensor for measuring an amount of light in the model eye; a second light source configured to provide light energy to illuminate the model eye, wherein the light energy from the second light source is introduced at an angle from the first light source; and a second electronic light sensor for measuring the amount of light in the model eye, wherein the second electronic light sensor is capable of taking measurements from various points around the model eye. Data from these measurements can then analyzed to provide an objective measurement of dysphotopsia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Huawei Zhao, Mihai State, Luuk Franssen, Patricia Ann Piers, Hendrik A. Weeber, Marrie Van Der Mooren
  • Patent number: 9636214
    Abstract: A method of designing a multifocal ophthalmic lens with one base focus and at least one additional focus, capable of reducing aberrations of the eye for at least one of the foci after its implantation, comprising the steps of: (i) characterizing at least one corneal surface as a mathematical model; (ii) calculating the resulting aberrations of said corneal surface(s) by employing said mathematical model; (iii) modelling the multifocal ophthalmic lens such that a wavefront arriving from an optical system comprising said lens and said at least one corneal surface obtains reduced aberrations for at least one of the foci. There is also disclosed a method of selecting a multifocal intraocular lens, a method of designing a multifocal ophthalmic lens based on corneal data from a group of patients, and a multifocal ophthalmic lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: AMO GRONINGEN B.V.
    Inventors: Patricia Ann Piers, Hendrik A. Weeber, Sverker Norrby