Patents by Inventor Ray Steven Spratt

Ray Steven Spratt 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: 20240045235
    Abstract: A progressive spectacle lens, a method for its production, and a related computer program are disclosed. The progressive spectacle lens has a progressive surface including a central viewing zone, a lower viewing zone, two peripheral vision zones extending bilaterally from a vertical meridian of the progressive surface, and an upper viewing zone. The central viewing zone has a surface power providing a first refracting power for distance vision and the lower viewing zone has a greater surface power than the central viewing zone providing a second refracting power corresponding to near vision and being connected to the central viewing zone by a first progressing power region. The progressive spectacle lens generates a retarding or arresting effect on myopia progression, especially in myopic juveniles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Ray Steven Spratt, Saulius Varnas, Philipp Jester
  • Patent number: 11782293
    Abstract: A progressive addition lens contains a plurality of microlenses for providing simultaneous myopic defocus. The microlenses are superimposed on a power variation surface of the lens, which includes a designated distance portion in the upper section of the lens adapted for distance vision and a fitting cross; a designated near portion located in the lower section of the lens, the near portion including a near reference point having a near dioptric power adapted for near vision; and a designated intermediate corridor extending between the designated distance portion and near portions. Microlenses are excluded from all areas of the surface located below a notional line extending from nasal to temporal limits of the lens at a vertical coordinate above the near reference point where the vertical coordinate lies at a distance above the near reference point with the distance being in a range between 1.5 mm and 3 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Saulius Raymond Varnas, Ray Steven Spratt, Timo Kratzer, Gerhard Kelch, Siegfried Wahl
  • Publication number: 20230161177
    Abstract: A progressive addition lens contains a plurality of microlenses for providing simultaneous myopic defocus. The microlenses are superimposed on a power variation surface of the lens, which includes a designated distance portion in the upper section of the lens adapted for distance vision and a fitting cross; a designated near portion located in the lower section of the lens, the near portion including a near reference point having a near dioptric power adapted for near vision; and a designated intermediate corridor extending between the designated distance portion and near portions. Microlenses are excluded from all areas of the surface located below a notional line extending from nasal to temporal limits of the lens at a vertical coordinate above the near reference point where the vertical coordinate lies at a distance above the near reference point with the distance being in a range between 1.5 mm and 3 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Saulius Raymond Varnas, Ray Steven Spratt, Timo Kratzer, Gerhard Kelch, Siegfried Wahl
  • Patent number: 11372263
    Abstract: A bifocal spectacle lens and a method for creating a numerical representation of a bifocal spectacle lens are disclosed. The bifocal spectacle lens includes a distance portion, a near portion, and a transition section situated between the distance portion and the near portion. The distance portion is optimized in view of an optical power for distance vision and the near portion is optimized in view of an optical power for near vision. The transition section is determined such that the transition section creates a continuous transition between the distance portion and the near portion. The distance portion and the near portion are optimized independently of one another and put together with the transition section to form the numerical representation of the bifocal spectacle lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Welscher, Ray Steven Spratt
  • Publication number: 20220121039
    Abstract: A bifocal spectacle lens and a method for creating a numerical representation of a bifocal spectacle lens are disclosed. The bifocal spectacle lens includes a distance portion, a near portion, and a transition section situated between the distance portion and the near portion. The distance portion is optimized in view of an optical power for distance vision and the near portion is optimized in view of an optical power for near vision. The transition section is determined such that the transition section creates a continuous transition between the distance portion and the near portion. The distance portion and the near portion are optimized independently of one another and put together with the transition section to form the numerical representation of the bifocal spectacle lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Markus Welscher, Ray Steven Spratt
  • Patent number: 11086144
    Abstract: An adjustable spectacle lens has a first lens element and a second lens element arranged one behind the other along an optical axis of the lens. The first and second lens element are configured to vary their combined optical properties when moved relative to each other in a direction transverse to the optical axis. The adjustable lens element is an adjustable progressive lens element. The first and second lens element are configured to vary at least one of a size and a power of the near, the distance, and the intermediate portion relative to each other, when the first lens element and the second lens element are moved relative to each other in the direction transverse to the optical axis. The first and second lens elements can be configured to conjointly provide a near, a distance and an intermediate portion that can be changed depending on the visual task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Ray Steven Spratt, Sabine Latzel
  • Patent number: 10976573
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing a lens shape for an ophthalmic lens is disclosed. Further, there is provided a method for angular smoothing of a surface determined by carrier lines radially outwards of a prescription zone bordered by a first boundary line. In addition, there is provided an ophthalmic lens, in particular, a spectacle lens. Moreover, a method for minimizing the difference in thickness between two ophthalmic lenses for the same spectacles is provided. A computer program product and a machine-readable storage medium are provided as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Ray Steven Spratt, Philipp Ellinger, Helmut Wietschorke, Angela Nolan, Saulius Varnas
  • Patent number: 10969607
    Abstract: The current disclosure is directed to a method for determining an improved design for a progressive spectacle lens. Further, there are provided a method for manufacturing a progressive spectacle lens, a system for determining an improved design for a progressive spectacle lens, a non-transitory computer program and a progressive spectacle lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Ray Steven Spratt, Gerhard Kelch
  • Patent number: 10928655
    Abstract: A series of spectacle lenses is disclosed, wherein each lens has a spherical front surface and an aspheric, atoric, or freeform back surface. Further, each lens of the series provides a focal power Px between ?6 D and +4 D; and at least one lens of the series provides a focal power Px between at least one of (a) ?0.75 D and +2.25 D and (b) ?0.5 D and +2.00 D. For an upper range of focal powers, lenses having the same nominal front surface power are provided; and for a lower range of trough powers, lenses having the same minimum nominal back surface power are provided. The spherical front surface has a nominal front surface power Pf and the back surface has a minimum nominal back surface power Pb; wherein 15.5 D?|Pf|+|Pb|+|Px|?31.5 D applies for each spectacle lens of the series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventor: Ray Steven Spratt
  • Patent number: 10875140
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for manufacturing a spectacle lens is disclosed. The method includes: obtaining prescription data descriptive of an ophthalmic prescription of a user in the plus prescription range; obtaining frame data descriptive of a perimeter of a spectacle frame in which the lens is to be mounted; providing a lens blank having a convex front surface and a back surface; determining a final cutting surface to be machined on the back surface of the lens blank in a final cutting phase; and determining an intermediate cutting surface to be machined on the back surface of the lens blank in an initial cutting phase. Further, it is provided that the intermediate cutting surface is different from the final cutting surface; and the final cutting surface comprises a prescription zone in which the final cutting surface together with the front surface fulfills the ophthalmic prescription of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Ray Steven Spratt, Angela Nolan, Philipp Ellinger, Michael Gall
  • Patent number: 10863901
    Abstract: A method, a system and a computer program for determining an eyeglass prescription for an eye are disclosed. Initially, information about a measurement indicative of the refractive properties of the eye is received. Subsequently, a mathematical representation of wavefront aberrations of the eye is determined from the measurement. The mathematical representation includes a multitude of polynomials, each polynomial having an azimuthal order and a radial order. Further, the mathematical representation includes at least a first polynomial group having a common radial order, wherein the common radial order is higher than two. The eyeglass prescription is determined based on a merit function, wherein each polynomial of the first polynomial group that is used in the merit function has an azimuthal order of ?2, 0, or 2, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventor: Ray Steven Spratt
  • Patent number: 10856601
    Abstract: A protective shield can be mounted in front of the face of a wearer of a protective helmet. In an as worn orientation, the protective shield extends across the eyes and typically also across the nose of the wearer. The protective shield has at least one arcuate lens portion which, in the as worn orientation, curves across an eye of the wearer. The arcuate lens portion has a horizontal curvature extending in a horizontal direction and a vertical curvature extending in a vertical direction, wherein the vertical curvature is a horizontally varying vertical curvature (?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventor: Ray Steven Spratt
  • Patent number: 10782541
    Abstract: The current invention is directed to a computer-implemented method for providing a lens shape for an ophthalmic lens. Further, there is provided a method for angular smoothing of a surface determined by carrier lines radially outwards of a prescription zone bordered by a first boundary line. Further, there is provided an ophthalmic lens, in particular a spectacle lens. Further, a method for minimizing the difference in thickness between two ophthalmic lenses for the same spectacles. A computer program product and a machine readable storage medium are provided as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Ray Steven Spratt, Philipp Ellinger, Helmut Wietschorke, Angela Nolan, Saulius Varnas
  • Patent number: 10775642
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing a lens shape for an ophthalmic lens is disclosed. Further, there is provided a method for angular smoothing of a surface determined by carrier lines radially outwards of a prescription zone bordered by a first boundary line. In addition, there is provided an ophthalmic lens, in particular, a spectacle lens. Moreover, a method for minimizing the difference in thickness between two ophthalmic lenses for the same spectacles is provided. A computer program product and a machine-readable storage medium are provided as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Ray Steven Spratt, Philipp Ellinger, Helmut Wietschorke, Angela Nolan, Saulius Varnas
  • Patent number: 10775641
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing a lens shape for an ophthalmic lens is disclosed. Further, there is provided a method for angular smoothing of a surface determined by carrier lines radially outwards of a prescription zone bordered by a first boundary line. In addition, there is provided an ophthalmic lens, in particular, a spectacle lens. Moreover, a method for minimizing the difference in thickness between two ophthalmic lenses for the same spectacles is provided. A computer program product and a machine-readable storage medium are provided as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Ray Steven Spratt, Philipp Ellinger, Helmut Wietschorke, Angela Nolan, Saulius Varnas
  • Publication number: 20200282507
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for manufacturing a spectacle lens is disclosed. The method includes: obtaining prescription data descriptive of an ophthalmic prescription of a user in the plus prescription range; obtaining frame data descriptive of a perimeter of a spectacle frame in which the lens is to be mounted; providing a lens blank having a convex front surface and a back surface; determining a final cutting surface to be machined on the back surface of the lens blank in a final cutting phase; and determining an intermediate cutting surface to be machined on the back surface of the lens blank in an initial cutting phase. Further, it is provided that the intermediate cutting surface is different from the final cutting surface; and the final cutting surface comprises a prescription zone in which the final cutting surface together with the front surface fulfills the ophthalmic prescription of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Ray Steven Spratt, Angela Nolan, Philipp Ellinger, Michael Gall
  • Patent number: 10765313
    Abstract: A method, a system and a computer program for determining an eyeglass prescription for an eye are disclosed. Initially, information about a measurement indicative of the refractive properties of the eye is received. Subsequently, a mathematical representation of wavefront aberrations of the eye is determined from the measurement. The mathematical representation includes a multitude of polynomials, each polynomial having an azimuthal order and a radial order. Further, the mathematical representation includes at least a first polynomial group having a common radial order, wherein the common radial order is higher than two. The eyeglass prescription is determined based on a merit function, wherein each polynomial of the first polynomial group that is used in the merit function has an azimuthal order of ?2, 0, or 2, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventor: Ray Steven Spratt
  • Publication number: 20200050022
    Abstract: An adjustable spectacle lens has a first lens element and a second lens element arranged one behind the other along an optical axis of the lens. The first and second lens element are configured to vary their combined optical properties when moved relative to each other in a direction transverse to the optical axis. The adjustable lens element is an adjustable progressive lens element. The first and second lens element are configured to vary at least one of a size and a power of the near, the distance, and the intermediate portion relative to each other, when the first lens element and the second lens element are moved relative to each other in the direction transverse to the optical axis. The first and second lens elements can be configured to conjointly provide a near, a distance and an intermediate portion that can be changed depending on the visual task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Ray Steven Spratt, Sabine Latzel
  • Publication number: 20190361267
    Abstract: A method, a system and a computer program for determining an eyeglass prescription for an eye are disclosed. Initially, information about a measurement indicative of the refractive properties of the eye is received. Subsequently, a mathematical representation of wavefront aberrations of the eye is determined from the measurement. The mathematical representation includes a multitude of polynomials, each polynomial having an azimuthal order and a radial order. Further, the mathematical representation includes at least a first polynomial group having a common radial order, wherein the common radial order is higher than two. The eyeglass prescription is determined based on a merit function, wherein each polynomial of the first polynomial group that is used in the merit function has an azimuthal order of ?2, 0, or 2, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventor: Ray Steven Spratt
  • Publication number: 20190357766
    Abstract: A method, a system and a computer program for determining an eyeglass prescription for an eye are disclosed. Initially, information about a measurement indicative of the refractive properties of the eye is received. Subsequently, a mathematical representation of wavefront aberrations of the eye is determined from the measurement. The mathematical representation includes a multitude of polynomials, each polynomial having an azimuthal order and a radial order. Further, the mathematical representation includes at least a first polynomial group having a common radial order, wherein the common radial order is higher than two. The eyeglass prescription is determined based on a merit function, wherein each polynomial of the first polynomial group that is used in the merit function has an azimuthal order of ?2, 0, or 2, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventor: Ray Steven Spratt