Patents by Inventor Sverker Norrby

Sverker Norrby 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: 7543937
    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) modeling 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: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: AMO Groningen B.V.
    Inventors: Patricia Ann Piers, Hendrik A. Weeber, Sverker Norrby
  • Publication number: 20090036980
    Abstract: The present invention discloses methods of obtaining ophthalmic lens capable of reducing the aberrations of the eye comprising the steps of characterizing at least one corneal surface as a mathematical model, calculating the resulting aberrations of said corneal surface(s) by employing said mathematical model, selecting the optical power of the intraocular lens. From this information, an ophthalmic lens is modeled so a wavefront arriving from an optical system comprising said lens and corneal model obtains reduced aberrations in the eye. Also disclosed are ophthalmic lenses as obtained by the methods which are capable reducing aberrations of the eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2008
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Applicant: AMO GRONINGEN BV
    Inventors: Sverker Norrby, Pablo Artal, Patricia Ann Piers, Marrie Van Der Mooren
  • Publication number: 20080198326
    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: March 26, 2008
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Applicant: AMO Groningen B. V.
    Inventors: Patricia Ann Piers, Hendrik A. Weeber, Sverker Norrby
  • Patent number: 7377640
    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) modeling 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: June 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Amo Groningen, B.V.
    Inventors: Patricia Ann Piers, Hendrik Albert Weeber, Sverker Norrby
  • Patent number: 7377641
    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: June 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Amo Groningen B.V.
    Inventors: Patricia Ann Piers, Hendrik Albert Weeber, Sverker Norrby
  • Publication number: 20070260157
    Abstract: The invention relates to devices and methods for selecting IOLs for implantation and eye models useful with the methods. One method comprises the steps of determining the axial eye length, the pupil size at a desired light level; the desired postoperative refraction; determining an aspheric representation of the corneal curvature and determining the location of the plane of fixation of the IOL following implantation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2005
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventor: Sverker Norrby
  • Publication number: 20070258044
    Abstract: The present invention discloses methods of obtaining ophthalmic lens capable of reducing the aberrations of the eye comprising the steps of characterizing at least one corneal surface as a mathematical model, calculating the resulting aberrations of said corneal surface(s) by employing said mathematical model, selecting the optical power of the intraocular lens. From this information, an ophthalmic lens is modeled so a wavefront arriving from an optical system comprising said lens and corneal model obtains reduced aberrations in the eye. Also disclosed are ophthalmic lenses as obtained by the methods which are capable reducing aberrations of the eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: Advanced Medical Optics, Inc.
    Inventors: Sverker Norrby, Pablo Artal, Patricia Piers, Marrie Mooren
  • Publication number: 20070219633
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the treatment of ocular conditions by the enhancement of lens regeneration. Enhancement of lens regeneration is accomplished by the administration of a composition comprising a polysiloxane polymer having functional acryl groups useful in the preparation of intraocular lenses (IOLs).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2007
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Applicant: Advanced Medical Optics, Inc.
    Inventors: Arlene Gwon, Sverker Norrby, Thomas Terwee, Steven Koopmans
  • Publication number: 20070188700
    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) modeling 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 11, 2007
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Inventors: Patricia Piers, Hendrik Weeber, Sverker Norrby
  • Patent number: 7241311
    Abstract: The present invention discloses methods of obtaining ophthalmic lens capable of reducing the aberrations of the eye comprising the steps of characterizing at least one corneal surface as a mathematical model, calculating the resulting aberrations of said corneal surface(s) by employing said mathematical model, selecting the optical power of the intraocular lens. From this information, an ophthalmic lens is modeled so a wavefront arriving from an optical system comprising said lens and corneal model obtains reduced aberrations in the eye. Also disclosed are ophthalmic lenses as obtained by the methods which are capable reducing aberrations of the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: AMO Groningen
    Inventors: Sverker Norrby, Pablo Artal, Patricia Ann Piers, Marrie Van Der Mooren
  • Publication number: 20070121064
    Abstract: The present invention discloses methods of obtaining ophthalmic lens capable of reducing the aberrations of the eye comprising the steps of characterizing at least one corneal surface as a mathematical model, calculating the resulting aberrations of said corneal surface(s) by employing said mathematical model, selecting the optical power of the intraocular lens. From this information, an ophthalmic lens is modeled so a wavefront arriving from an optical system comprising said lens and corneal model obtains reduced aberrations in the eye. Also disclosed are ophthalmic lenses as obtained by the methods which are capable reducing aberrations of the eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2007
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: AMO GRONINGEN BV
    Inventors: Sverker Norrby, Pablo Artal, Patricia Piers, Marrie Van Der Mooren
  • Patent number: 7137702
    Abstract: An intraocular correction lens has at least one aspheric surface which when its aberrations are expressed as a linear combination of polynomial terms, is capable of, in combination with a lens in the capsular bag of an eye, reducing similar such aberration terms obtained in a wavefront having passed the cornea, thereby obtaining an eye sufficiently free from aberrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignee: AMO Groningen B.V.
    Inventors: Patricia Ann Piers, Sverker Norrby
  • Publication number: 20060244906
    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: June 23, 2006
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Applicant: Advanced Medical Optics, Inc.
    Inventors: Patricia Piers, Hendrik Weeber, Sverker Norrby
  • Publication number: 20060244905
    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: June 23, 2006
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Applicant: Advanced Medical Optics, Inc.
    Inventors: Patricia Piers, Hendrik Weeber, Sverker Norrby
  • Publication number: 20060158611
    Abstract: An intraocular lens comprises optical part configured to be implanted in an eye of a subject. The intraocular lens further comprises at least one aspheric surface configured, in combination with a lens in the capsular bag of an eye, to reduce an aberration of a wavefront passing the eye. The aberrations may include astigmatism, coma, and/or spherical aberrations. An aberration of the intraocular lens may be expressed as a linear combination of Zernike polynomial terms that may include a Zernike coefficient a11. The Zernike coefficient a11 may be selected to reduce a spherical aberration of a wavefront passing the eye and/or to compensate for an average value resulting from a predetermined number of estimations of the Zernike coefficient a11 in a population of corneas and capsular bag lenses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2006
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Inventors: Patricia Piers, Sverker Norrby
  • Publication number: 20060134177
    Abstract: The present invention relates to amphiphilic block copolymers comprising at least one block of hydrophilic units and at least one block of hydrophobic units, wherein at least one hydrophobic block contains siloxane units. The present invention may be particularly useful as a tissue adhesive or as a coating for an intraocular lens (IOL). As an IOL coating, copolymers according to the invention may be used, for example, to promote tissue adhesion for the prevention of posterior capsule opacification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2005
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Inventors: Yan Liu, Jons Hilborn, Hendrik Haitjema, Sverker Norrby, Thom Terwee
  • Publication number: 20060064163
    Abstract: The invention relates to method of preparing a viscoelastic therapeutic liquid comprising a viscoelastic agent and a homogenously distributed therapeutically active agent, wherein the therapeutically active agent is distributed throughout the viscoelastic compound when the viscoelastic compound is in dry form. In one embodiment of the invention, the viscoelastic compound in dry form is mixed with an aqueous solution of the therapeutically active agent. The invention further relates to utilities of homogenous viscoelastic compositions in therapeutic applications including ophthalmic surgery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Publication date: March 23, 2006
    Inventors: Thom Terwee, Sverker Norrby, Robert Shimizu, Rolf Bergman
  • Publication number: 20050191322
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising a sterile ophthalmic composition, which comprises one or more agents capable of inhibiting lens epithelial proliferation dissolved in a physiologically isotonic solution. The present invention also relates to a method of preventing capsular opacification comprising by using said composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2003
    Publication date: September 1, 2005
    Inventor: Sverker Norrby
  • Publication number: 20040183996
    Abstract: An intraocular correction lens and a method of designing such a lens. According to the invention the lens is capable of reducing aberrations of an eye after its implantation and it is adapted to be placed between the cornea and the capsular bag of the eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Inventors: Patricia Ann Piers, Sverker Norrby
  • Publication number: 20040156014
    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: December 1, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: Patricia Ann Piers, Hendrik Albert Weeber, Sverker Norrby