Methods Patents (Class 351/159.73)
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Patent number: 12216342Abstract: This method for determining specification parameters used to manufacture an optical article includes steps of: training at least one neural network to predict the specification parameters, by using a training data set including a plurality of training prescription parameters and corresponding training specification parameters; and predicting specification parameters of the optical article by the at least one neural network, from prescription parameters relating to the optical article, on the basis of the training.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2019Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Sébastien Piraube, Kord Schrowangen, Charles Goodrum, Brad Gelb
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Patent number: 12135468Abstract: A method to select or to conceive/design lenses is provided. The method may be applied to lenses having effect of myopia control, visual fatigue relief, etc. In one aspect, a predictive model that ranks myopia control solutions according to visual, behavioral, and biometric parameter is provided. The predictive model may be built based on the myopic eye characteristics, the behavior of the wearers, and the defocus induced by the myopia control solution. In another aspect, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus for evaluating the efficacy of an ophthalmic lens in controlling at least one sightedness impairment (e.g., myopia) of at least one wearer of the ophthalmic lens are provided. The apparatus may determine, based on a predetermined relationship model, the efficacy of the ophthalmic lens for at least one wearer from representative data corresponding to the at least one wearer.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Damien Paille, Björn Drobe
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Patent number: 12111461Abstract: A method for designing a wide-angle optical system having at least one freeform optical surface without rotational symmetry to create a custom 2D object-image mapping. The method is based on iteratively adjusting the at least one freeform optical 2D surface shape to have the exact 2D object-image mapping required and then adjusting the optical element surfaces to meet the other required optical specifications. The iterative method is applied until both the desired 2D object-image mapping and the other required optical specifications are reached.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: IMMERVISION, INC.Inventors: Jocelyn Parent, Simon Thibault, Zhenfeng Zhuang, Patrice Roulet, Xavier Dallaire, Xiaojun Du, Pierre Konen
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Patent number: 12044903Abstract: A method for determining an optical design criterion for designing an optical lens adapted to a sport practice, the method including: defining an evaluation axis for evaluating sensory/motor/cognitive requirement of a sport practice, for each of a plurality of sports; attributing a score to the sport practice on each evaluation axis; determining clusters of sports in which practices have similar score; determining at least one visual need corresponding to each cluster of sports; determining, for each cluster, at least one optical design criterion as a function of the associated visual need; and storing in a memory a record for each cluster, along with each optical design criterion associated with the cluster.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2019Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventors: Delphine Tranvouez-Bernardin, Mélanie Heslouis, Laurent Calixte
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Patent number: 12017425Abstract: A method for manufacturing an ophthalmic lens using an additive manufacturing technology, based on an optical element and initial manufacturing data, the initial manufacturing data including data defining a complementary portion to deposit on the optical element to form the ophthalmic lens from the optical element, includes the steps of: positioning the optical element on a support; determining a positioning error between the position of the optical element and a reference position on the support using a measurement directed to the optical element; determining a deterioration on the optical element; calculating updated manufacturing data taking into account initial manufacturing data and the determined positioning error; and manufacturing the ophthalmic lens using the updated manufacturing data by the additive manufacturing technology by depositing the complementary portion on the optical element to form the ophthalmic lens from the optical element.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventor: Alexandre Gourraud
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Patent number: 11964355Abstract: Disclosed is a method implemented by a computer, for determining the position of an optical lens member having a surface placed on a lens blocking ring, the blocking ring including a bearing zone arranged to bear at least partially a placed known surface of the optical lens member when the known surface of the optical lens member is placed on the lens blocking ring and hold by a force applied on the optical lens member, the method includes finding a trio of points of the bearing zone that forms a triangle including the projection on the main plane of the point of application of the force; and a position of the optical lens having a virtual contact between the placed known surface and the ring at the location of the trios of points.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2018Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventor: Jérôme Moine
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Patent number: 11947118Abstract: The contact lens (100) for augmented reality comprises: a transparent body (102) designed to be placed on an eye (104); and at least one augmented reality module comprising an optical source (114) attached to the transparent body (102) and designed to emit a light into the transparent body, and an optical element (116) attached to the transparent body (102) and designed to receive the light from the optical source (114) and send it in the direction of the eye (104). The optical element (116) is a hologram designed to diffract the received light as a holographic image in the direction of the eye (104).Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: INSTITUT MINES TELECOMInventors: Jean-Louis De Bougrenet De La Tocnaye, Vincent Nourrit, Kevin Heggarty
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Patent number: 11841557Abstract: An apparatus, worn over the eyes of a user, that restores visual clarity to the user in response to a change associated with a film of fluid over the apparatus. In an embodiment the apparatus includes a smart contact portion having at least a first convex surface, a second convex surface, and a concave surface. The apparatus further includes set of liquid thickness sensors embedded upon the first convex surface. The apparatus further includes an electrochemical storage device and a computing module. The apparatus further includes a plurality of ultrasonic transducers embedded upon the first convex surface. The apparatus further includes an electroactive lens structure embedded within central portion of the first convex surface. The apparatus further includes lens controllers that apply electrical signals to the electroactive lens structure to change at least one physical characteristic of the electroactive lens structure based on control signals from the computing module.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Siddique M. Adoni, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
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Patent number: 11813197Abstract: An ophthalmic lens for treating myopia comprising: a base lens with a front surface, a back surface, and a first power profile selected to correct or substantially correct for a distance refractive error of the eye; one or more myopia control elements on at least one of the front and back surfaces of the lens; a first viewing region having a dimension selected based, at least in part, on a concentration of a pharmaceutical agent for use in conjunction with an ophthalmic lens, the first viewing region being configured to minimize, reduce and/or eliminate vision disturbances for distance vision; and a second viewing region comprising a power profile that is relatively more positive compared to the first viewing region; wherein at least one of the size of the second viewing region and the relatively more positive power of the second viewing region is selected based, at least in part, on the concentration of the pharmaceutical agent.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Brien Holden Vision Institute LimitedInventors: Arthur Back, Padmaja Rajagopal Sankaridurg, Cathleen Fedtke
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Patent number: 11730626Abstract: A method is disclosed for providing control data for an eye surgical laser of a treatment apparatus for the removal of a tissue. The method includes using a control device for determining a wavefront of a cornea and Zernike polynomials from the wavefront and calculating a respective tissue geometry for each Zernike polynomial. A combination of Zernike polynomials describes a tissue removal geometry. The control device ascertains a subgroup of the Zernike polynomials by an optimization calculation, which uses a preset condition to select Zernike polynomials. The condition is preset by a maximized target corneal geometry and a target imaging correction to be achieved. The target corneal geometry is a difference between a corneal geometry and the tissue removal geometry. An optimized tissue removal geometry is found using the subgroup and control data for controlling the eye surgical laser, which uses the optimized tissue removal geometry for separating the tissue.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: SCHWIND eye-tech-solutions GmbHInventor: Samuel Arba Mosquera
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Patent number: 11701849Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for machining an eyewear frame. One method includes receiving a coupon of material for making the eyewear frame, the frame comprising a perimeter, a front portion and a rear portion; cutting the coupon along the perimeter of the eyewear frame, the cut being from the rear portion of the frame to a predetermined depth from the front portion of the frame; and creating a plastic seam around the frame by further cutting the coupon from the front portion of the eyewear frame.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: BESPOKE, INC.Inventor: Eric J. Varady
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Patent number: 11632833Abstract: A method of controlling lighting based on influence of the lighting may include: classifying a predetermined area including a plurality of lightings into a plurality of sub-areas; calculating a detailed influence of each of the plurality of lightings on each of the plurality of sub-areas; determining an influence of each of the plurality of lightings on the predetermined area by using a sum of the calculated, detailed influences on the plurality of respective sub-areas; determining ranking of influence of the plurality of lightings, based on each of the determined influences of the plurality of respective lightings; and controlling the plurality of lightings based on the determined ranking of influence of the plurality of lightings.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: KONGJU NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY—UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATIONInventor: Jaehyun Lim
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Patent number: 11464406Abstract: A wavefront device produces adjustable amplitudes in optical path differences and adjustable axis orientation angles. two substantially identical wave plates have a wavefront profile of at least the third order Zernike polynomial function which are not circularly symmetric, as denoted by Z(i,j) where i?3 and j?0. The wave plates are mounted in rotatable mounts with their optical centers substantially aligned with each other. An subjective wavefront refraction instrument and method are provided to correct low and high order aberrations of the eye, using the adjustable wave plates that have astigmatism and higher order Zernike function optical path difference wavefront profiles.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Inventor: Shui T. Lai
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Patent number: 11391964Abstract: The disclosure generally describes methods, systems and products relating to the development and manufacture of scleral contact lenses. A number of dimensions for the scleral lens is generated based on control points and attendant curvature parameters. Any change to one or more of the curve parameters imparts an improved anterior and posterior surface of the scleral lens and associated thickness, while undesired modifications to control points and other curve parameters remain static inasmuch as the sagittal depth component is an input parameter of the present disclosure.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Bausch & Lomb IncorporatedInventor: Charles H. Creighton
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Patent number: 11378820Abstract: An aspheric lens using an E-value to control an eyeball growth rate and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. A treatment zone of the aspheric lens includes a base curve having non-zero eccentricity, and the base curve can make the image shell formed on a retina have non-zero eccentricity, so as to increase a peripheral defocus area formed on the retina to effectively control myopia or hyperopia, thereby achieving the purpose of correcting myopia or hyperopia.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: BRIGHTEN OPTIX CORP.Inventor: I-Tsung Wu
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Patent number: 11222755Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor that comprises a capacitor element that contains a sintered porous anode body, a dielectric that overlies the anode body, and a solid electrolyte that overlies the dielectric is provided. An anode lead wire extends from the capacitor element in a longitudinal direction, wherein the lead wire defines an external surface having a plurality of distinct recessed regions that are spaced apart along the longitudinal direction. A hydrophobic coating is disposed on at least a portion of the external surface of the anode lead wire. Further, an anode termination is in electrical connection with the anode lead wire and a cathode termination is in electrical connection with the solid electrolyte.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2020Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: KYOCERA AVX Components CorporationInventor: Yasuyuki Tezuka
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Patent number: 11149194Abstract: The present disclosure provides a composite particle that includes: a fluorescent semiconductor core/shell nanoparticle (preferably, nanocrystal); and a stabilizing homo- or copolymer combined with the core/shell nanoparticle, the stabilizing (co)polymer comprising styrene monomer units and functionalized with phosphine, arsine or stibine groups.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2017Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Carl A. Laskowski, Saswata Chakraborty, Wayne S. Mahoney, Guy D. Joly, Michael C. Palazzotto
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Patent number: 10928655Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 10, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventor: Ray Steven Spratt
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Patent number: 10845624Abstract: An ophthalmic lens element includes an upper distance viewing zone and a lower near viewing zone. The upper distance viewing zone includes a central region with a first refractive power for clear distance vision and peripheral regions that are relatively positive in power compared to the first refractive power. The lower near viewing zone has a central region that is relatively positive in power compared to the first refractive power to account for accommodative lag. The powers of the peripheral regions of the lower near viewing zone are one of: i) equal to the power of the central region of the lower near viewing zone, ii) relatively positive in comparison to the power of the central region of the lower near viewing zone.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2019Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Brien Holden Vision Institute LimitedInventors: Padmaja Rajagopal Sankaridurg, Cathleen Fedtke, Leslie Alan Donovan, Earl Leo Smith, III, Arthur Ho, Brien Anthony Holden
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Patent number: 10770238Abstract: A capacitor assembly that comprises a solid electrolytic capacitor element is provided. The capacitor assembly also comprises a casing material that encapsulates the capacitor element, an anode termination that is in electrical connection with the anode body and contains a portion that is positioned external to the casing material, and a cathode termination that is in electrical connection with the solid electrolyte and contains a portion that is positioned external to the casing material. A first hydrophobic coating is disposed in contact with the casing material and the external portion of the anode termination and a second hydrophobic coating is disposed in contact with the casing material and the external portion of the cathode termination.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: AVX CorporationInventors: Lotfi Djebara, Martin Biler, Frantisek Priban
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Patent number: 10656307Abstract: An optical element is disclosed. In an embodiment an optical element includes a substrate having a silicone surface, an antireflection layer overlying the silicone surface, wherein the antireflection layer comprises a first organic layer having a reflection-reducing nanostructure, the nanostructure having a depth of at least 30 nm, and a cover layer overlying the first organic layer, the cover layer having a thickness of no more than 40 nm.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2019Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Ulrike Schulz, Friedrich Rickelt, Peter Munzert, Norbert Kaiser
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Patent number: 10555807Abstract: An intraocular lens (IOL) insertion apparatus may include a hand piece body having a distal tip, an IOL folding chamber, and IOL a dwell position, and a telescoping plunger having a first plunger portion and a second plunger portion. The first plunger portion and second plunger portion may be arranged to simultaneously advance through a first portion of a displacement of the telescoping plunger, and one of the first and second plunger portions may be arranged to advance through a second portion of the displacement of the telescoping plunger.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2016Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: Novartis AGInventors: Chris Belisle, Kyle Brown, Asif Fayyaz, Jian Liu
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Patent number: 10507136Abstract: An ophthalmic laser processing apparatus comprises: a laser device that outputs a pulsed laser beam towards an eye; an image capturing device that captures an image of the eye and provides image data; and a control device that detects eye movement based on the image data and controls the beam focus based on a predetermined eye processing pattern and the eye movement. The apparatus further comprises a visualization device controlled by the control device to output a visualization of a graphical illustration. The graphical illustration represents at least one of (a) a value of an eye parameter determined on the basis of the image data; (b) a frequency distribution of a value of an eye parameter determined on the basis of the image data; and (c) a range of values of a pupil diameter determined on the basis of the image data.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2014Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Novartis AGInventors: Sissimos Lemonis, Peter Riedel, Mario Abraham
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Patent number: 10437077Abstract: The present invention provides a method, a system, and a computer program code for optimizing geometry of at least one semi-finished ophthalmic lens in a set of semi-finished ophthalmic lenses having a designated lens material, each of the semi-finished ophthalmic lenses in the set having an Initially determined geometry including one of a plurality of base curves determined to allow manufacture of finished ophthalmic lenses for ophthalmic lens prescriptions.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2014Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignees: CARL ZEISS VISION INC., CARL ZEISS VISION INTERNATIONAL GMBHInventors: Andrew Woodland, Jonathan Deeds
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Patent number: 10429669Abstract: A method for adjusting an original prescription to be used in manufacturing an ophthalmic lens for correcting vision of a patient, the method comprising: obtaining an original prescription based on an eye vision measurement performed by virtue of a real optical system; obtaining supplementary input data associated with the eye vision measurement; calculating a simulated optical system simulating the real optical system, by using at least the original prescription and the supplementary input data; and calculating an adjusted prescription by using at least the original prescription and the simulated optical system, to reflect the effect of the supplementary input data on the eye vision measurement.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2013Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: SHAMIR OPTICAL INDUSTRY LTD.Inventors: Yuval Carmon, Liron Gleser, Yotam Gil
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Patent number: 10247964Abstract: An ophthalmic lens element includes an upper distance viewing zone and a lower near viewing zone. The upper distance viewing zone includes a central region with a first refractive power for clear distance vision and peripheral regions that are relatively positive in power compared to the first refractive power. The lower near viewing zone has a central region that is relatively positive in power compared to the first refractive power to account for accommodative lag. The powers of the peripheral regions of the lower near viewing zone are one of: i) equal to the power of the central region of the lower near viewing zone, ii) relatively positive in comparison to the power of the central region of the lower near viewing zone.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: Brien Holden Vision InstituteInventors: Padmaja Rajagopal Sankaridurg, Cathleen Fedtke, Leslie Alan Donovan, Earl Leo Smith, III, Arthur Ho, Brien Anthony Holden
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Patent number: 10196498Abstract: A method for making a colored film includes following steps of providing a mixture comprising a hydrophilic monomer, a functionalized vinylic monomer, a clay, a cross-linking agent, and an initiator; mixing a pigment and a solvent with the mixture to form a colored material; and placing the colored material into a mold, and exposing the colored material to ultraviolet radiation or heating the colored material, to cause the hydrophilic monomer, the functionalized vinylic monomer, the cross-linking agent, and the initiator in the colored material to undergo a polymerization reaction to form a cross-linking network, and the clay in the colored material to be dispersed in the cross-linking network, thereby forming the colored film. The disclosure also provides a colored film made by above method, a colored material making for the colored film, and an ophthalmic lens.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: ScienBiziP Consulting(Shenzhen)Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hsiu-Wen Chien
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Patent number: 9933622Abstract: A compact head-worn display with multiply folded optics providing displayed images overlaid onto a see-through view of a surrounding environment includes a solid prism of a first material with an angled planar surface to fold an optical axis and one or more surfaces that provide optical power, one or more additional lens elements with optical power made of a second material that is different from the material of the solid prism, an image source that provides image light associated with the displayed images, a combiner that folds the optical axis and directs the image light toward a user's eye and wherein the multiply folded optics provide a more compact head-worn display and the first and second materials are selected to reduce a lateral color in the displayed images.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2015Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Osterhout Group, Inc.Inventors: John N. Border, Joseph Bietry, John D. Haddick
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Patent number: 9815732Abstract: There is an article of manufacture. The article includes an alkali aluminosilicate glass object. The glass object is characterized by having at least one of: a surface compression of ?about 100,000 psi with a case depth of ?about 600 microns; and/or a compressive stress of ?about 30,000 psi at ?about 50 microns below a surface of the glass object and above the case depth.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2015Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: Saxon Glass Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Arun K. Varshneya
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Patent number: 9682528Abstract: An article includes a glass substrate and an insert within the glass substrate, the surface roughness (Ra) of the glass substrate and the insert is about 0.05 ?m to about 0.2 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2014Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignees: SHENZHEN FUTAIHONG PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD., FIH (HONG KONG) LIMITEDInventors: Ren-Bo Wang, Chao-Sheng Huang
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Patent number: 9568744Abstract: A method and a system for the selection and programming of an energized ophthalmic lens are disclosed. More specifically, the energized ophthalmic lens which can include a variable state arcuate shaped liquid meniscus lens capable of changing vision correction properties upon the receipt of an activation signal. According to some aspects of the disclosure, the system and method comprise vision simulation software configured to use patient's eye related data and product design options to select the ophthalmic lens and an operational protocol for the change of optical properties.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2015Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.Inventors: Randall B. Pugh, Frederick A. Flitsch
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Patent number: 9421721Abstract: A system and method for designing scleral lenses includes a computer, a camera and a lathe connected by a network. The camera captures a set of sagittal images at each of a set of sagittal planes of an eye. A combined sagittal image is created from each set of sagittal images. A spline curve is defined for each combined sagittal image creating a set of spline curves. A set of back surface curves is created from the set of spline curves. A back lens surface is generated from the set of surface curves. A front lens surface is generated adjacent the back lens surface. A point cloud is generated from the back lens surface and the front lens surface. The point cloud is converted to a lens image. The lens is converted to a text file for use by the lathe to cut the scleral lens.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2013Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Inventor: Gregory Gemoules
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Patent number: 9174321Abstract: A method of deblocking a lens component (1) fixed on a thermoplastic block (2) of an ophthalmic lens block comprising the steps of: a) applying a pushing strain on the surface (14) of the lens component fixed on the thermoplastic block; b) providing a warm gas flow at the interface between the lens component (1) and the thermoplastic block; and maintaining the pushing strain during the step of providing the warm gas flow at the interface between the lens component and the thermoplastic block, wherein the stress applied to obtain the pushing strain of step a) is greater or equal to 0.1 MPa and/or less or equal to 1 Mpa, and wherein the temperature of the warm gas flow of step b) is greater or equal to 30° and/or less or equal to 70° C.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2008Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE)Inventors: Yohann Felten, Yannick Gordiet, Matthieu Le Gall
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Patent number: 9028064Abstract: Methods of fabricating and prescribing lenses suitable for color blindness and dyslexia correction are disclosed. The corrective lens may be formed of an optically transparent base material, which is tinted to a desired color for correction by immersion in a colorant dye. The color tinted lens is then tinted by a neutral tint dye to render the lens observable as a regular corrective lens. Prescription of such lenses may be based on a dynamically balanced, or haploscopic, fashion of prescription that comprises selecting a first visual filter from a set of sixteen filters and a second visual filter from the remaining set of fifteen filters, the first for the dominant eye and the second for non-dominant eye.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2012Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: ChromaGen Vision LLCInventor: David Andrew Harris
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Patent number: 8992013Abstract: Embodiments of the invention pertain to a method for producing a spectacle lens with optimal correction across the entire lens taking into account the patient's complete measured wavefront. Specific embodiments can also take into account one or more additional factors such as vertex distance, segmental fitting height, pantoscopic tilt, and use conditions. The lens wavefront can be achieved by optimizing a corrected wavefront, where the corrected wavefront is the combined effect of the patient's measured wavefront and the lens wavefront. The optimization of the corrected wavefront can involve representing the measured wavefront and the lens wavefront on a grid. In an embodiment, the grid can lie in a plane. During the optimization, a subset of the grid can be used for the representation of the measured wavefront at a point on the grid so as to take into account the portions of the measured wavefront that contribute to the corrected wavefront at that point on the grid.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2009Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)Inventors: Keith Dillon, Jeffrey S. Chomyn, Kris Kusumoto, Laurence Warden, Jagdish M. Jethmalani, Andreas W. Dreher
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Patent number: 8985763Abstract: Contact lenses and methods of manufacturing contact lenses are provided. In one aspect, a method includes: forming a substrate having an uneven surface; providing a sensor at a first region of the substrate; providing a chip at a second region of the substrate; and encapsulating the substrate, sensor and chip in a polymer. The method also includes: patterning interconnections from the first region of the substrate to the second region of the substrate; and patterning metal pads proximate to the second region of the substrate. The chip can be provided on a metal pad. The uneven surface can be a sloped surface or one or more sloped channels in the substrate, and the channels can be wide enough to receive interconnections for the chip and to receive the chip. Further, the substrate can be ring-shaped and curved prior to encapsulation.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: James Etzkorn, Babak Amirparviz
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Patent number: 8974056Abstract: The invention relates to a method for making a hybrid contact lens, comprising: a step of providing a hydrophilic disc (100); a step of providing a rigid disc (200); a step of hydrating the hydrophilic disc (100); a step of applying an adhesive element (202) on a surface of the rigid disc; a step of bonding the hydrophilic disc (100) to said surface of the rigid disc; a step of drying the two thus bonded discs (100); and a step of cutting the two thus bonded and dried discs (100).Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2011Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: LentillesInventors: Emmanuel Veillard, Pascal Renault, Jean-Philippe Lebailly
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Patent number: 8975121Abstract: This invention discloses methods and apparatus to form thin film nanocrystal integrated circuit transistors upon three dimensionally formed insert devices. In some embodiments, the present invention includes incorporating the three dimensional surfaces with thin film nanocrystal integrated circuit based thin film transistors, electrical interconnects and energization elements into an insert for incorporation into ophthalmic lenses. In some embodiments the formed insert may be directly used as an ophthalmic device or incorporated into an ophthalmic device.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2013Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.Inventors: Randall B. Pugh, Frederick A. Flitsch
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Publication number: 20150062528Abstract: The present invention provides for an optical assembly using two ultra-thin optical pieces/parts defining the outer bound of the assembly with a solid or liquid core and methods of forming said assembly. In particular, the present in invention discloses the handling and arrangements of said ultra-thin optical pieces to prevent deformation and loss of optical quality of said ultra-thin optical pieces. The ultra-thin optical pieces can be from 25-200 microns and their structural integrity can be preserved through uninterrupted support throughout the encapsulation of one or more fluids, e.g., a saline solution and an oil solution, which can be used to form a liquid meniscus lens. In some embodiments, interlocking features included in the ultra-thin optical parts can be included in order to help create the seal and/or provide structural support to the liquid lens assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2013Publication date: March 5, 2015Applicant: JOHNSON & JOHNSON VISION CARE, INCInventors: Vincent H. Barre, Victor Lust
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Patent number: 8950862Abstract: This invention discloses a media substrate for incorporation into ophthalmic lenses that has been formed by the stacking of multiple functionalized layers. Additionally, methods and apparatus for providing a stacked functional layer insert for incorporation into an ophthalmic lens are also provided. In some embodiments, an ophthalmic lens is cast molded from a silicone hydrogel and the lens includes at least one stacked functional layer insert portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2012Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.Inventors: Randall B. Pugh, Frederick A. Flitsch, Daniel B. Otts, James Daniel Riall, Adam Toner
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Publication number: 20150036100Abstract: A hydrophilizingly coated silicone contact lens has a radial cross-section of the inner face (1), the rim portion contour of which is convex (7) between a point of inflection (6) and the outer edge. For its manufacture, a silicone precursor is brought between a female and a male mold and is polymerized, and the polymerized contact lens is released from the mold by means of a liquid swelling same and is completed after a PECVD/CVD-coating without edge cutting.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2013Publication date: February 5, 2015Applicant: LENSWISTA AGInventors: Martin Görne, Thomas Kordick
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Patent number: 8936362Abstract: The present invention is directed to a non-deforming contact lens for keratoconus patients having a displaced central zone. In particular, the central zone is displaced from the geometric center of the lens. The shape of the central zone is egg or spoon-shaped and is rotationally asymmetrical with one semi-meridian that is shorter than a corresponding semi-meridian. An intermediate transition zone is formed integral with the periphery of the central zone, and a peripheral zone is formed integral with the periphery of the intermediate transition zone, forming a round contact lens.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2011Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: Vicoh, LLCInventor: Jerome A. Legerton
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Patent number: 8931899Abstract: A method for trimming an ophthalmic lens using a machining device having a load sensor for measuring a load relating to the load applied by a machine tool to the lens, includes: immobilizing the lens on an immobilizing element, and trimming the lens, while measuring the load magnitude and steering the machine tool relative to the immobilizing element so as to bring the initial contour of the ophthalmic lens to a final contour of a different shape. Between the immobilizing and trimming steps, the machine tool is steered relative to the immobilizing element so that it makes a tour around the lens without contact therewith, while measuring the unladen load magnitude, this relating to the load required to move the machine tool relative to the immobilizing element without performing machining work while steering the machine tool, during the trimming step, as a function of the unladen magnitude measured.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2012Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)Inventors: Cedric Lemaire, Sebastien Pinault
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Patent number: 8919954Abstract: A method for obtaining an ophthalmic lens, includes: —the step of selecting a material that displays a threshold of pinhole formation during a machining step of a finished surface (20) in a material-removing depth (D) of 0.07 mm, which is at least 15% higher than the threshold of pinhole formation during a machining step of a finished surface in a material-removing depth (D) of 0.22 mm; —the step of selecting a set point for finishing depth of cut (A) between 0.015 mm and 0.075 mm; and—the step of selecting a set point for finishing feed between 85% and 99% of the threshold of pinhole formation for the material-removing depth (D) given by the sum of the selected set point for finishing depth of cut (A) and the blank roughness (B?).Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2012Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)Inventor: Mathieu Meynen
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Publication number: 20140375950Abstract: A method of processing an order request for an ophthalmic lens to be manufactured by a manufacturing device includes the following steps: receiving an order request including at least information related to an ophthalmic wearer's prescription by a first processing device; processing the order request by the first processing device on the basis of predetermined processing rules so as to obtain manufacturing parameters to be applied to the manufacturing device so as to manufacture the ophthalmic lens according to the information included in the order request; sending and storing the manufacturing parameters identified as requiring a further modification to a storing device and sending the other manufacturing parameters to the manufacturing device; modifying the stored manufacturing parameters by a second processing device and sending the modified manufacturing parameters to the manufacturing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2012Publication date: December 25, 2014Applicant: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERAL D'OPTIQUE)Inventors: Laurent Marcepoil, Jerome Concialdi, Frederic Dubois
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Patent number: 8915591Abstract: A contact lens, comprising a preprint of a first shade and a main print of a second shade, wherein the preprint consisting of a first band of gradient dot matrix, wherein the main print consisting of a second band of evenly spaced circular voids, wherein the second band surrounds the starburst pattern, wherein the first band and the second band have a substantially identical outer diameter and the first band has a smaller inside diameter than the second band, wherein the first shade and the second shade are different, wherein the gradient dot matrix is characterized by dot coverage increases in a radial direction from the center too the peripheral edge or a position near the peripheral edge of the substantially-circular pattern.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2014Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Novartis AGInventors: Sandra Corti, Laura Ashley Creech
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Patent number: 8911083Abstract: A system for facilitating contact lens design comprises an input unit for input of design parameters, and a processing unit for calculating a post-lens pressure profile based on the design parameters. The processing unit is arranged, in use, to perform a finite model calculation allowing for large deflection and non-linear geometry effects in the deformation of a model lens shape. Preferably the finite element model calculation utilizes solid elements of modelling the lens shape. A contact comprising a high Young's modulus material such as silicone hydrogel can be designed to have a maximum corneal or limbal post-lens pressure valve of less than 250 Pa.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2003Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignees: Vision CRC Limited, Novartis AGInventor: Geoffrey Brent
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Patent number: 8911078Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to multicomponent optical devices having a space within the device. In various embodiments, an optical device comprises a first posterior component having an anterior surface, a posterior support component, and an anterior component having a posterior surface. An optical device can also comprise an anterior skirt. The first posterior component and the anterior skirt can comprise gas-permeable optical materials. An optical device also comprises a primary space between the posterior surface and the anterior surface, with the primary space configured to permit diffusion of a gas from a perimeter of the primary space through the space and across the anterior surface of the first posterior component. A method of forming a multicomponent optical device having a space is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: CRT Technology, Inc.Inventor: William E. Meyers
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Publication number: 20140354946Abstract: The present invention discloses methods for manufacturing and programming an energizable Ophthalmic Lens with a programmable Media Insert. In some embodiments, a Media Insert may be programmable to allow for further customization of the energized Ophthalmic Lens. The Media Insert may be programmed prior to or during the manufacturing process. Alternatively, the Media Insert may be programmed after the components have been encapsulated, wherein the programming may occur wirelessly. Accordingly, methods of wirelessly programming the Media Insert may be significant.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2013Publication date: December 4, 2014Inventors: Randall B. Pugh, Sharika Snook, Camille Higham, Karson S. Putt
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Publication number: 20140347624Abstract: Provided is a diffraction-type multifocal ophthalmic lens for which halos are reduced. Also provided is a diffraction-type multifocal ophthalmic lens having three or more focal points, which is implemented on the basis of the discovery that the diffraction-type multifocal ophthalmic lens has a characteristic whereby multiple focal points can be generated in the intermediate region as well as the near and far regions. Also provided is a method for manufacturing a diffraction-type multifocal ophthalmic lens which provides a simple design and manufacturing method by means of a simple diffraction structure and by replacing a cumbersome computer simulation with a simple method. This diffraction-type multifocal ophthalmic lens has a diffraction structure (20) where a plurality of diffraction zones are formed concentrically on the lens (10), and an equal-pitch region is provided where pitches of at least two zones among the diffraction zones are made equal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2012Publication date: November 27, 2014Applicant: MENICON CO., LTD.Inventors: Ichiro Ando, Hiroaki Suzuki, Atsushi Kobayashi