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...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120050669 | METHOD OF MAKING HIGH PRECISION OPTICS HAVING A WAVEFRONT PROFILE A method of generating a high precision optical surface profile includes obtaining a high precision optical surface profile which contains information of the optical path difference map of the profile. A substrate material has a known index of refraction, Ns, while a co... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120029631 | OPHTHALMIC LENS WITH OPTICAL SECTORS The invention relates to an ophthalmic lens comprising a main lens part, a recessed part, an optical centre, and an optical axis through said optical centre, said main lens part having at least one boundary with said recessed part, said main lens part having an optical ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120019773 | HIGH PERFORMANCE, LOW COST MULTIFOCAL LENS HAVING DYNAMIC PROGRESSIVE OPTICAL POWER REGION An embryonic optical apparatus including a first lens component including a first surface and a second surface on an opposite side of the first lens component from the first surface, and a second lens component comprising a flexible element, wherein the flexible element... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120019776 | Method for Providing a Spectacle Ophthalmic Lens by Calculating or Selecting a Design A method for providing a spectacle ophthalmic lens to a wearer, the method comprising the following steps: providing a value, SV, representing the sensitivity of the wearer referred to a scale of sensitivity to perception of spatial orientation, according to both visual... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120013847 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DESIGNING OPTHALMIC LENSES A method for designing ophthalmic lenses, the method comprising calculating an effective refraction index of a lens based on a unique transmission spectrum created by at least one factor related to parameters of at least one of the lens and wavelength dependency of the ... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120013846 | FINISHED OPHTHALMIC LENS AND CORRESPONDING METHODS Finished ophthalmic lens and corresponding methods. Finished ophthalmic lens having one concave face, one convex face; an outer perimeter with a thickness within a pre-established range; a central useful area that fulfils a pre-established ophthalmic prescription, which... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120008090 | CONTROLLING DESIGNS USING A POLYGONAL DESIGN A method and device for calculating design parameters of a design of a progressive spectacle lens on the basis of a predetermined design polygon. The design parameters are calculated by specifying a point within the design polygon, in which the specified point defines t... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120010703 | INTRAOCULAR LENSES HAVING A VISIBLE LIGHT-SELECTIVE-TRANSMISSIVE-REGION Intraocular lenses are provided having a visible-light selective transmissive zone defined therein. The visible light-selective transmissive zone can be located near the lens center and designed to reduce the transmission of any wave-length of visible light specifically... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120008089 | METHOD OF COMPILING SHAPE DATA OF A SPECTACLE LENS, SPECTACLE LENS SHAPE DATA COMPILING DEVICE AND SPECTACLE LENS A spectacle lens capable of obtaining a good vision without feeling of discomfort, even being fitted into a frame having a large front angle, and a method of creating the shape data of the spectacle lens having dioptric power to be fitted into a frame having a lens fron... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120002162 | METHOD FOR CUTTING A PATCH TO BE APPLIED ONTO A CURVED SUBSTRATE A method cuts a patch to be applied onto a curved substrate and includes the preliminary calculation of curvilinear lengths on the substrate between a reference point and a peripheral edge of said substrate. The calculated lengths are applied to a planar film for making... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120004754 | Lens Customizing Method Method for customizing an initial ophthalmic lens, the initial ophthalmic lens being customized so as to provide a customized ophthalmic lens, the method comprising: a initial ophthalmic lens data providing step (S1) in which initial data representing the initial... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002161 | VARIABLE PROGRESSIVE LENS DESIGN A method and apparatus for creating a progressive spectacle lens design by transforming a starting design. The starting design is defined to include specification of a principal line, specifications for target astigmatism values A(u=0,y) along the principal line, and sp... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110317127 | Progressive Power Eyeglass Lens and Design Method Thereof A progressive power eyeglass lens includes an object side surface that includes a first progressive surface, an eyeball side surface that includes a second progressive surface, and a pair of points that is passed by a light beam passing through a rotation center of an e... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110317126 | LIMITED ECHELETTE LENS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS Systems and methods for providing enhanced image quality across a wide and extended range of foci encompass vision treatment techniques and ophthalmic lenses such as contact lenses and intraocular lenses (IOLs). Exemplary IOL optics can include a circular surface struct... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110299029 | Method for correcting vision problems A method for causing visual images on the foveas of a patient to be differentially displaced from their default position by determining an optimal amount of displacement for each eye to maximize visual acuity while maintaining binocular vision, and fabricating lenses to... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110299032 | OPTIMIZATION AND PRODUCTION OF AN EYEGLASS LENS FOR CORRECTING AN ASTIGMATIC REFRACTION A method and system for producing a first spectacle lens for a specific situation of wear for correcting at least a first astigmatic refraction of a first eye of a wearer, which has a first cylinder reference axis α | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110299028 | METHOD OF MAKING A SOFT CONTACT LENS Disclosed is a method of designing a soft contact lens to correct a visual defect in the eye of a human subject caused by abnormal corneal topography, the method comprising the steps of: (a) defining the posterior topography of the lens over at least a central optic zon... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110285958 | ORTHOKERATOLOGICAL CONTACT LENSES AND DESIGN METHODS THEREFOR The present invention provides an orthokeratological contact lens to be worn on a patient's cornea and methods for prescribing the same. The contact lens comprises a parabolic lens having an inner surface configured to face an epithelium of the patient's cornea, wherein... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110285960 | CHARACTERIZATION AND CORRECTION OF MACULAR DISTORTION A method and apparatus for correcting vision in macular degeneration patients. Following a diagnostic procedure which has been successfully tested to determine the factors needed to correct the vision of a patient with macular degeneration, the present invention describ... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110273664 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN ASPHERIZATION LAYER FOR AN OPHTHALMIC LENS The invention relates to a method for determining an aspherization layer for an ophthalmic lens for a wearer for whom a power and an astigmatism have been prescribed. The method can be used equally satisfactorily on a unifocal or a multifocal lens. The invention also ex... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110270596 | Apparatus, System and Method for Predictive Modeling to Design, Evaluate and Optimize Ophthalmic Lenses An apparatus, system and method for predictive modeling to design, evaluate and optimize ophthalmic lenses is disclosed. Ophthalmic lenses may include, for example, contacts, glasses or intraocular lenses (IOLs). The apparatus, system and method may include a design too... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110270390 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING APHAKIC INTRAOCULAR LENS A method of manufacturing an aphakic intraocular lens that is capable of ensuring every multi-focusing effect more securely, while reducing the impact of aperture changes and lens eccentricity. At least two reliefs whose first order diffracted lights give respective foc... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110267576 | Method of Making a Spectacle Lens The invention relates to a method of making a spectacle lens. The method of the invention includes the method steps of providing a prescription for the spectacle lens (200), providing a material for manufacturing the spectacle lens (300), providing at leas... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110262519 | METHOD OF IMPROVING LENS ROTATION Ophthalmic stabilized lenses have improved rotational properties by treating them with a wetting agent after they are at least initially polymerized.... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110255052 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING A SPECTACLE LENS FOR THE WAVEFRONT ABERRATIONS OF AN EYE AND LENS The current invention is directed to a method for designing an ophthalmic lens element, the method comprising the steps of determining a wavefront aberration of an eye in a reference plane, wherein the wavefront aberration of the eye can be described by a first series o... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110228212 | Electro-Active Spectacle Lenses An adapter for a spectacle frame is disclosed which is configured for enabling the spectacle frame to operate and control electro-active lenses housed therein. In particular, the spectacle frame may allow electro-active lenses housed therein to focus and be controlled b... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110228225 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR REFRACTIVE CORRECTION OF EYES Methods and devices are provided to obtain refractive correction with superior visual acuity (e.g., 20/10) by achieving an astigmatism-free customized refractive correction. The astigmatism-free customized refractive correction involves obtaining an objective and precis... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110228214 | SPECTACLE LENS WITH COLOR-NEUTRAL ANTI-REFLECTION COATING AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME A spectacle lens (2) has an antireflective coating (1). The antireflective coating (1) produces a residual reflection appearing color-neutral not only under illumination with a natural daylight spectrum, but also under an illumination with an illumi... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110228217 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INCREASING AN OPTICAL SYSTEM FOCAL DEPTH A method for changing a property of an eye uses a continuously multifocal profile that includes a component for increasing a focal depth. The method includes calculating the component for increasing the focal depth to be rotation-symmetrical. Alternatively, or in additi... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110222019 | Progressive-Power Lens Designing Method, Progressive Power Lens Designing System, and Progressive-Power Lens A progressive-lens designing system includes a manufacturer-side terminal installed in a lens manufacturer connected to a shop-side terminal installed in a spectacle shop or any other location via a network. The manufacturer-side terminal includes an optimization coeffi... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110211159 | Spectacle Lens and Method for Designing the Same A spectacle lens includes: a near region corresponding to near vision, wherein a spherical equivalent power at a point located on a principal line of fixation in the near region is larger than the spherical equivalent power in a region away from the point toward the nos... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110199573 | PROGRESSIVE-ADDITION LENS, METHOD FOR PREPARING SHAPE DATA THEREOF, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE LENS, AND APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PREPARING SUCH SHAPE DATA In a progressive-addition lens having a progressive surface on one side and an aspherical or atoroidal surface on the other side, the lens shape is designed so that a high degree of aberration correction can be carried out on the periphery of the lens and the distance p... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110202421 | SPECTACLE LENS EVALUATING METHOD, SPECTACLE LENS DESIGNING METHOD USING SAME, SPECTACLE LENS MANUFACTURING METHOD, SPECTACLE LENS MANUFACTURING SYSTEM, AND SPECTACLE LENS More appropriate evaluation, design, and manufacture are made feasible by taking visual performances into consideration more appropriately. In order to achieve this object, in the present invention, spectacle lenses are evaluated using a visual acuity function including... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110194067 | SPECTACLE LENS EVALUATING METHOD, SPECTACLE LENS DESIGNING METHOD USING SAME, SPECTACLE LENS MANUFACTURING METHOD, SPECTACLE LENS MANUFACTURING SYSTEM, AND SPECTACLE LENS More appropriate evaluation, design, and manufacture are made feasible by taking visual functions into consideration more appropriately. In order to achieve this object, in the present invention, provided is a spectacle lens evaluation method for evaluating spectacle le... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110187992 | CONTACT LENS WITH BRIGHTLY COLORED SCLERA Contact lenses have patterns in which the portion that substantially lies over the sclera when worn on-eye is brightly colored or tinted; the colored or tinted contact lenses can have colored or tinted central portions that enhance the iris when worn on-eye and limbal r... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110187991 | CONTACT LENS WITH SHADOW EFFECT A contact lens with a central portion, an iris portion, and a peripheral portion disposed about the iris portion; wherein the iris portion contains an arcuate colored or tinted portion that provides a shadow effect; the peripheral portion can be colored white and can ha... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110181835 | LASER ENHANCED LENS This invention discloses methods and apparatus for modifying a silicone contact lens via laser ablation and a resulting modified lens. In some embodiments a lens is ablated in a hydrated state. A lens may also be ablated in an environment of decreased oxygen content.... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110184830 | Method for Determining the Inset of a Progressive Addition Lens A method for determining the value of the inset of a progressive addition lens according to a wearer comprising the steps of: providing convergence data, determining from the convergence data the inset of the progressive addition lens considering at least the convergenc... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110176102 | Series of Progressive Ophthalmic Lenses A series of progressive ophthalmic lenses is proposed, which is indexed by optical power addition values of eyeglasses of spectacles to be made from these lenses. Each lens of the series determines a further gap between a value of the optical power for the near vision d... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110176105 | METHOD OF MAKING AND PRESCRIBING TINTED LENSES 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 dy... | 07/21/2011 |
