Patents by Inventor Paul C Whalen

Paul C Whalen 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: 7419262
    Abstract: A lens for viewing the anterior chamber of the eye includes a contact lens having a contact lens surface and an anterior surface. The anterior surface has an optical axis that intersects the optical axis of the contact lens surface. First and second mirror surfaces are positioned to redirect light rays from the periphery of the anterior chamber and reflect them in a direction parallel or nearly parallel to the optical axis of the contact lens surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Ocular Instruments, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul C Whalen
  • Patent number: 6767098
    Abstract: An ophthalmoscopic prism, for example a gonioscope, has an optically transparent body, the distal end carries a viewing surface preferably oriented perpendicularly to the optical axis of the body, the proximal end of the prism carries a concave surface having a curvature similar to the curvature of the cornea of a patient. The proximal end has at least one planar surface extending outwardly and distally from a location adjacent the periphery of the concave surface. The body has an index of refraction that provides total internal reflection to a viewer looking through the viewing surface even when the planar surface is at least partially wetted with a fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: Ocular Instruments, Inc.
    Inventors: Phillip J. Erickson, Paul C. Whalen, Peter G. Harrington, Raymond D. Graham
  • Publication number: 20040041979
    Abstract: An ophthalmoscopic prism, for example a gonioscope, has an optically transparent body, the distal end carries a viewing surface preferably oriented perpendicularly to the optical axis of the body, the proximal end of the prism carries a concave surface having a curvature similar to the curvature of the cornea of a patient. The proximal end has at least one planar surface extending outwardly and distally from a location adjacent the periphery of the concave surface. The body has an index of refraction that provides total internal reflection to a viewer looking through the viewing surface even when the planar surface is at least partially wetted with a fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2002
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Applicant: Ocular Instruments, Inc.
    Inventors: Phillip J. Erickson, Paul C. Whalen, Peter G. Harrington, Raymond D. Graham