Patents by Inventor Terah Whiting Smiley

Terah Whiting Smiley 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: 20230380961
    Abstract: Delivery devices for delivering an ophthalmic device into an eye. In some embodiments the delivery devices are adapted to deliver an intraocular lens into an eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Terah Whiting SMILEY, John A. SCHOLL, David John SMITH, Russell J. REDMOND, Derek L. MORAN, Barry CHESKIN, John REGGIE, Gregory Vinton MATTHEWS, Claudio ARGENTO
  • Patent number: 11759313
    Abstract: Delivery devices for delivering an ophthalmic device into an eye. In some embodiments the delivery devices are adapted to deliver an intraocular lens into an eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Terah Whiting Smiley, John A. Scholl, David John Smith, Russell J. Redmond, Derek L. Moran, Barry Cheskin, John Reggie, Gregory Vinton Matthews, Claudio Argento
  • Patent number: 11751991
    Abstract: Accommodating intraocular lenses containing a flowable media and their methods of accommodation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Terah Whiting Smiley, David John Smith, Steven Choi, Henry Wu, John A. Scholl, Denise Horrilleno Burns
  • Publication number: 20230248509
    Abstract: Disclosed are adjustable accommodating intraocular lenses and methods of adjusting accommodating intraocular lenses post-operatively. In one embodiment, an adjustable accommodating intraocular lens comprises an optic portion and a peripheral portion. At least one of the optic portion and the peripheral portion can be made in part of a composite material comprising an energy absorbing constituent and a plurality of expandable components. At least one of a base power and a cylindricity of the optic portion can be configured to change in response to an external energy directed at the composite material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Terah Whiting SMILEY, Andrew R. WALZ, Sharad HAJELA, Gregory Vinton MATTHEWS, Robert Demitri ANGELOPOULOS, Nathan LEWIS
  • Patent number: 11660182
    Abstract: Disclosed are adjustable accommodating intraocular lenses and methods of adjusting accommodating intraocular lenses post-operatively. In one embodiment, an adjustable accommodating intraocular lens comprises an optic portion and a peripheral portion. At least one of the optic portion and the peripheral portion can be made in part of a composite material comprising an energy absorbing constituent and a plurality of expandable components. At least one of a base power and a cylindricity of the optic portion can be configured to change in response to an external energy directed at the composite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Terah Whiting Smiley, Andrew R. Walz, Sharad Hajela, Gregory Vinton Matthews, Robert Angelopoulos, Nathan Lewis
  • Publication number: 20230016461
    Abstract: Accommodating intraocular lenses including an optic having an anterior element and a posterior element defining an optic fluid chamber, wherein the optic is aspheric across all powers throughout accommodation or disaccommodation. Intraocular lenses, optionally accommodating, where an optic portion is centered with a midline of a height of the peripheral portion, the height measured in the anterior to posterior direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Terah Whiting SMILEY, Daniel HILDEBRAND, Bryan Patrick FLAHERTY
  • Publication number: 20230009753
    Abstract: Pill cutters and methods of cutting pills. The pill cutters may optionally include a spinnable blade and may be configured to cause the blade to spin to cut a pill. The pill cutters may be adapted to adjust the position of the pill before cutting the pill.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Barry CHESKIN, Terah Whiting Smiley
  • Publication number: 20220409363
    Abstract: Disclosed are adjustable intraocular lenses and methods of adjusting intraocular lenses post-operatively. In one embodiment, an adjustable intraocular lens can comprise an optic portion and a peripheral portion. The peripheral portion can comprise a composite material comprising an energy absorbing constituent and a plurality of expandable components. A base power of the optic portion can be configured to change in response to an external energy directed at the composite material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Alcon Inc.
    Inventor: Terah Whiting SMILEY
  • Publication number: 20220346942
    Abstract: An intraocular lens is disclosed that includes an optic body with a projection extending radially outwards from a peripheral surface of the optic body. The projection comprises a haptic contact surface facing radially outward, wherein the entire haptic contact surface is a flat surface. A haptic having a free distal end and a proximal portion is secured to the projection along the haptic contact surface, wherein the projection and the proximal portion interface at a butt joint without the haptic extending into the projection and without the projection extending into the haptic. The haptic also includes a haptic fluid chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel HILDEBRAND, Terah Whiting SMILEY, Nathan LEWIS, Robert Demitri ANGELOPOULOS
  • Patent number: 11484402
    Abstract: Accommodating intraocular lenses including an optic having an anterior element and a posterior element defining an optic fluid chamber, wherein the optic is aspheric across all powers throughout accommodation or disaccommodation. Intraocular lenses, optionally accommodating, where an optic portion is centered with a midline of a height of the peripheral portion, the height measured in the anterior to posterior direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Terah Whiting Smiley, Daniel Hildebrand, Bryan Patrick Flaherty
  • Patent number: 11471272
    Abstract: Disclosed are adjustable intraocular lenses and methods of adjusting intraocular lenses post-operatively. In one embodiment, an adjustable intraocular lens can comprise an optic portion and a peripheral portion. The peripheral portion can comprise a composite material comprising an energy absorbing constituent and a plurality of expandable components. A base power of the optic portion can be configured to change in response to an external energy directed at the composite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventor: Terah Whiting Smiley
  • Publication number: 20220313080
    Abstract: Disclosed are apparatus, systems, and methods for objectively assessing accommodation in an eye. For example, a method for objectively assessing accommodation can comprise displaying, at a far display, a stimulus target for a first duration and displaying, at a near display, the stimulus target for a second duration. The stimulus target displayed at the near display can be projected onto a first beam splitter positioned at an oblique angle with respect to the near display. The stimulus target displayed on the far display can be axially aligned with the stimulus target projected onto the first beam splitter. The method can also comprise obtaining, at a controller, measurements concerning refractive states of the eye during the first duration and the second duration from a refractor device in communication with the controller and determining, using the controller, an accommodative response of the eye based in part on the respective refractive states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Manuel HERNANDEZ, Armin Soltan Zadi, Robert Demitri Angelopoulos, Terah Whiting Smiley, Madison McGough, Vidhyapriya Sreenivasan
  • Patent number: 11432998
    Abstract: Pill cutters and methods of cutting pills. The pill cutters may optionally include a spinnable blade and may be configured to cause the blade to spin to cut a pill. The pill cutters may be adapted to adjust the position of the pill before cutting the pill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SPLITRX LLC
    Inventors: Barry Cheskin, Terah Whiting Smiley
  • Patent number: 11426270
    Abstract: An intraocular lens is disclosed that includes an optic body with a projection extending radially outwards from a peripheral surface of the optic body. The projection comprises a haptic contact surface facing radially outward, wherein the entire haptic contact surface is a flat surface. A haptic having a free distal end and a proximal portion is secured to the projection along the haptic contact surface, wherein the projection and the proximal portion interface at a butt joint without the haptic extending into the projection and without the projection extending into the haptic. The haptic also includes a haptic fluid chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Hildebrand, Terah Whiting Smiley, Nathan Lewis, Robert Angelopoulos
  • Publication number: 20210401671
    Abstract: Pill cutters and methods of cutting pills. The pill cutters may optionally include a spinnable blade and may be configured to cause the blade to spin to cut a pill. The pill cutters may be adapted to adjust the position of the pill before cutting the pill.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Barry CHESKIN, Terah Whiting SMILEY
  • Patent number: 11166808
    Abstract: Accommodating intraocular lenses and methods of use. The accommodating intraocular lenses include peripheral regions that are adapted to be more responsive to certain types of forces than to other types of forces. For example, the accommodating intraocular lenses can include haptics that are stiffer in an anterior-to-posterior direction than in a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Terah Whiting Smiley, Daniel Hildebrand, Bryan Patrick Flaherty
  • Publication number: 20210100650
    Abstract: Disclosed are adjustable accommodating intraocular lenses and methods of adjusting accommodating intraocular lenses post-operatively. In one embodiment, an adjustable accommodating intraocular lens comprises an optic portion and a peripheral portion. At least one of the optic portion and the peripheral portion can be made in part of a composite material comprising an energy absorbing constituent and a plurality of expandable components. At least one of a base power and a cylindricity of the optic portion can be configured to change in response to an external energy directed at the composite material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Terah Whiting SMILEY, Andrew R. WALZ, Sharad HAJELA, Gregory Vinton MATTHEWS, Robert ANGELOPOULOS, Nathan LEWIS
  • Publication number: 20210100649
    Abstract: Disclosed are adjustable intraocular lenses and methods of adjusting intraocular lenses post-operatively. In one embodiment, an adjustable intraocular lens can comprise an optic portion and a peripheral portion. The peripheral portion can comprise a composite material comprising an energy absorbing constituent and a plurality of expandable components. A base power of the optic portion can be configured to change in response to an external energy directed at the composite material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventor: Terah Whiting SMILEY
  • Publication number: 20210030530
    Abstract: Accommodating intraocular lenses containing a flowable media and their methods of accommodation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Terah Whiting SMILEY, David John SMITH, Steven CHOI, Henry WU, John A. SCHOLL, Denise Horrilleno BURNS
  • Patent number: 10835373
    Abstract: Accommodating intraocular lenses containing a flowable media and their methods of accommodation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Terah Whiting Smiley, David John Smith, Steven Choi, Henry Wu, John A. Scholl, Denise Horrilleno Burns