Patents by Inventor Victor L. Copeland

Victor L. Copeland 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: 6871954
    Abstract: Optically superior eyeglasses comprising a frame and a pair of lenses which are attached to the frame and are positionable over respective ones of the wearer's eyes. Each of the lenses defines an optical center and comprises a convex front surface having a first radius of curvature and a concave back surface having a second radius of curvature which is less than the first radius of curvature so as to impart a negative power to the lens. The frame is sized and configured such that when positioned upon the wearer's head, the lenses are supported thereby in a manner wherein the normal line of sight of each of the wearer's eyes crosses the back surface of a respective one of the lenses at a selected wrap angle and at a location nasal to the optical center thereof so as to induce a base-in prism effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Inventor: Victor L. Copeland
  • Publication number: 20040100613
    Abstract: Optically superior eyeglasses comprising a frame and a pair of lenses which are attached to the frame and are positionable over respective ones of the wearer's eyes. Each of the lenses defines an optical center and comprises a convex front surface having a first radius of curvature and a concave back surface having a second radius of curvature which is less than the first radius of curvature so as to impart a negative power to the lens. The frame is sized and configured such that when positioned upon the wearer's head, the lenses are supported thereby in a manner wherein the normal line of sight of each of the wearer's eyes crosses the back surface of a respective one of the lenses at a selected wrap angle and at a location nasal to the optical center thereof so as to induce a base-in prism effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2003
    Publication date: May 27, 2004
    Inventor: Victor L. Copeland
  • Publication number: 20020042653
    Abstract: A surgically implantable synthetic intraocular lens having a wavelength blocker for blocking transmission of 100% or at least a portion of blue light of wavelengths between about 400 and 510 nanometers, as well as for blocking ultraviolet A and B wavelengths and optionally infrared wavelength transmissions. A preferred wavelength transmission blocker is a tint composition either disposed exteriorly upon the lens or blended interiorly within the lens. Lens utility is found in replacement of the natural crystalline lens to achieve visual correction of aphakia, as well as in correcting refractive errors of the eye through implantation without removal of the natural crystalline lens to thereby provide filtering properties that yield maximum visual acuity along with blockage of untoward wavelength transmissions. The lens implants thereby support vision health by protecting eyes from damage caused through the transmission of untoward wavelengths to the interior of the eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2001
    Publication date: April 11, 2002
    Inventors: Victor L. Copeland, Steven G. Pratt
  • Publication number: 20020008844
    Abstract: Optically superior eyeglasses comprising a frame and a pair of lenses which are attached to the frame and are positionable over respective ones of the wearer's eyes. Each of the lenses defines an optical center and comprises a convex front surface having a first radius of curvature and a concave back surface having a second radius of curvature which is less than the first radius of curvature so as to impart a negative power to the lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventor: Victor L. Copeland
  • Patent number: 6264327
    Abstract: Optically superior eyeglasses comprising a frame and a pair of lenses which are attached to the frame and are positionable over respective ones of the wearer,s eyes. Each of the lenses defines an optical center and comprises a convex front surface having a first radius of curvature and a concave back surface having a second radius of curvature which is less than the first radius of curvature so as to impart a negative power to the lens. The frame is sized and configured such that when positioned upon the wearer's head, the lenses are supported thereby in a manner wherein the normal line of sight of each of the wearer's eyes crosses the back surface of a respective one of the lenses at a selected wrap angle and at a location nasal to the optical center thereof so as to induce a base-in prism effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Inventor: Victor L. Copeland
  • Patent number: 6036315
    Abstract: Optically superior eyeglasses comprising a frame and a pair of lenses which are attached to the frame and are positionable over respective ones of the wearer's eyes. Each of the lenses defines an optical center and comprises a convex front surface having a first radius of curvature and a concave back surface having a second radius of curvature which is less than the first radius of curvature so as to impart a negative power to the lens. The frame is sized and configured such that when positioned upon the wearer's head, the lenses are supported thereby in a manner wherein the normal line of sight of each of the wearer's eyes crosses the back surface of a respective one of the lenses at a selected wrap angle and at a location nasal to the optical center thereof so as to induce a base-in prism effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Inventor: Victor L. Copeland
  • Patent number: 5835186
    Abstract: A plano-aspheric spectacle lens that is particularly beneficial under night and low-light conditions and/or by those who have had refractive surgery. A first refractive surface of the lens, preferably the back or concave side, has an aspheric surface with a power of from about minus 0.20 to minus 0.37 diopters and a central, generally circular, spherical area having no power and a diameter of from about 1 to 5 mm. If any corrections are required for eye anomalies such as refractive error, astigmatism or the like, those corrections are applied to the lens surface opposite the plano-aspheric surface, preferably the back or concave surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Inventors: Victor L. Copeland, Steven G. Pratt
  • Patent number: D244483
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1977
    Assignee: Nerthus, Inc.
    Inventors: John E. Toth, Victor L. Copeland