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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6789898 | Model for representing an ophthalmic lens surface An ophthalmic lens having a complex surface and a toric or spherical surface is represented in a model using a prism reference point and a prescription point on the complex surface, the normal to the complex surface at the prism reference point, the local characteri... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6789896 | Shaped ophthalmic lenses An optical lens element including a first surface; and a second surface of complementary curvature; at least one surface exhibiting significant deviation in curvature from a standard optical surface; the first and second surfaces in combi... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6786595 | Flat ophthalmic lens synthesized from its specifications This invention pertains to thin arched prescription lens (58), mainly suited for ophthalmic applications, which are designed to be manufactured as a thin flat sheet, and after or while being manufactured, the thin sheet is folded to the predefined arched shap... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6786596 | Optical lens coating An optical lens having a colored coating affixed to the edge of the lens. The apparatus may enhance the cosmetic appearance of eyeglasses by reducing the appearance of the white ring appearing along the perimeter of the face of lens when viewing eyeglasses from the ... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6786597 | Tinted contact lens and method for making same A tinted contact lens for insertion into an eye comprises a contact lens substrate and an iris-simulating pattern on the lens substrate. The iris simulating pattern comprises at least four distinctly colored colorants. A method for making a tinted contact lens for i... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6786598 | Plastic eyeglass lenses An apparatus for preparing a plastic eyeglass lens includes a coating unit and a lens curing unit. The apparatus is preferably configured to allow the operation of both the coating unit and the lens curing unit. The apparatus may also include a post-cure unit and a ... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6786599 | Polarized lens of plastic lamination and the production method of the same A polarized lens of plastic lamination is provided, which lens is of high quality and highly durable in use while being inexpensively and stably producible without inconsistency in quality. The issues of the prior polarized plastic lens as produced by the bla... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6786600 | Methods for generating a progressive surface and for production of multifocal progressive lenses A method for generating a progressive surface includes generating the surface from stored delta data and a substantially spherical surface calculated on-the-fly. ... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6776486 | Progressive addition power lens A system and method for designing a progressive lens. Mean power is specified at points distributed over the entire surface of the lens and lens height is specified around the edge of the lens. Lens height is determined at the points consistent with the specified me... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6764179 | Ophthalmic lens design method and resulting ophthalmic lens Disclosed is a method of designing an ophthalmic lens including the steps of: (a) determining a preliminary lens shape by preliminary determining a shape of the ophthalmic lens; and (b) varying the preliminary lens shape so as to adjust a position of an image surfac... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6764180 | Multifocal contact lens and method of making the same A multifocal contact lens structured to provide simultaneous distant and near vision includes a transparent lens body having an inner concave surface and an outer convex surface. The lens body has an aspherical central portion structured to provide distant vision an... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6761452 | Light polarizing film with melanin A dichroic dye can be blended with a non-dichroic dye (melanin and melanin derivatives) and still maintain a commercially acceptable level of polarizing efficiency. Efficient polarizers exhibit polarizing efficiencies of greater or equal to 95% and the best are even... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6761451 | Colored/tinted contact lens preview device A colored/tinted contact lens preview device which is a beauty mirror sales aid to enable a prospective purchaser or wearer of colored or tinted contact lenses to preview the appearance of different color or tint paten of contact lenses as they would appear as a col... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6761784 | Temporary protective layer on polymeric articles The temporary protection of polymeric articles, particularly polymeric articles with optical qualities such as ophthalmic lenses formed by the lamination of individual lens blanks, can be effected by the application of protective polymeric compositions to the surfac... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6755524 | Ophthalmic optical elements and methods for the design thereof In some embodiments of the present invention, a method for designing one or more surfaces of an ophthalmic optical element for an eye suffering at least from higher order aberrations includes computing an eye model and optimizing a merit function. The eye model may ... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6746118 | Bifocal contact lens with secondary prism A soft prism bifocal contact lenses that provides optimal vision for both distance and near objects by incorporating two or more prisms into the same lens. One or more primary prisms are used to achieve a desired vertical lens positioning on the eye and to control m... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6746120 | Method and system for ordering customized cosmetic contact lenses A method of configuring and ordering a customized contact lens for a user. The method includes the steps of displaying a template eye image to assist the user in visualizing selected options for a customized contact lens, and displaying a plurality of contact lens s... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6743486 | Method for producing spectacle lens and lens processing system Production information such as an edging mark 31 indicating a region of a lens remaining after edging and reference position marks 32 are depicted in a region, to be cut off by the edging, of a surface of a lens 10 for spectacles. Any production... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6739719 | Lens blank convenient for masking unpleasant odor and/or delivering a pleasant odor upon edging and/or surfacing, and perfume delivering lens The present invention relates to the field of reducing or eliminating unpleasant odor and/or delivering a pleasant odor upon edging and/or surfacing lenses, and more particularly ophthalmic lenses. The present invention also relates to perfume delivering ophthalmic ... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6736505 | Progressive power spectacle lens A progressive power spectacle lens has a progressive power surface on at least one of a front surface and a back surface of the spectacle lens. The progressive power surface includes a distance portion corresponding to a long-distance view, a near portion correspond... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6736506 | Eyeglasses made-to-order system This is an eyeglasses made-to-order system wherein an operator determines eyeglass specifications necessary for ordering eyeglasses, including necessary items relating to each structural member of the eyeglasses, with an interactive system using means including a co... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6733123 | Hydrogel contact lenses of high biocompatibility A hydrogel contact lens is described, the HEMA basic material of which is copolymerized with SPE and amino acids. The water retention capability and the refractive index of the resulting contact lens are similar to those of the natural cornea. ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6730244 | Plastic lens and method for the production thereof A method for making a plastic lens and a plastic lens made thereby. The method comprises disposing a liquid monomer or a monomer mixture and a photosensitive initiator into a mold cavity and directing ultraviolet light to act on the lens forming material in the cavi... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6726323 | Contact lens and method of designing the same A contact lens wherein a dioptric power P is held within a range of −10-0 diopters, a back junction is located outward of a front junction in a diametric direction orthogonal to a center axis of the lens, a central lens thickness TC measures 0.03-0.50 m... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6715875 | Astigmatic-power spectacle lens Disclosed is a single-vision astigmatic-power spectacle lens having cylindrical power to correct astigmatism of an eye. The spectacle lens has front and back surfaces, one of which is a rotationally-asymmetrical aspherical surface. The rotationally-asymmetrical asph... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6712467 | Progressive-power lens and design process for same The present invention provides a progressive-power lens affording superior wear comfort, even where a shallow base curve is employed in order to make the lens lighter and thinner, which is desirable in the terms of weight and aesthetic design. In the case of a progr... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6709106 | Method for the manufacture of a spectacle lens, spectacle lens and spectacle lens family This disclosure relates to a spectacle lens family and methods of manufacturing the same, which in one embodiment has a multifocal property such that along a line between a far-vision reference point and a near-vision reference point spaced apart therefrom a mean sp... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6709101 | Apparatus and method for avoiding ocular muscular fatigue The present invention provides an apparatus and method for avoiding ocular muscular fatigue, the apparatus comprising a binocular light converging means (12, 14) for converging incident light (18, 20), thereby reducing ocular convergence demand when th... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6698884 | Lenses and spectacles bearing lenses An optical lens element of wrap-around or shield type wherein the aperture of the lens outline or edge of at least one surface of the optical lens element is of generally ovaline shape and located on the surface of a sphere whose radius of curvature corre... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6685315 | Bifocal lenses Bifocal contact and intraocular lenses are described wherein a viewing area which has an extend generally corresponding to the maximum pupil area of the wearer, said viewing area having a central circular refractive zone having a first focal length corres... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6685316 | Method of manufacturing progressive ophthalmic lenses What is described here is a method of manufacturing progressive ophthalmic lenses whereof each is produced in correspondence with the individual data of a specific spectacle wearer, and whereof each presents a first surface having a defined surface power value... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6679605 | Crystalline polymeric compositions for ophthalmic devices Ophthalmic devices suitable for implantation into the eye through small incisions are disclosed. These devices are made from a composition comprising crystalline or semi-crystalline polymeric materials which have a glass transition temperature (Tg | 01/20/2004 |
| 6673888 | Optical materials having good ultraviolet absorbability and method for producing them An optical material, particularly a plastic lens for spectacles, which absorbs almost all UV rays of up to around 400 nm or so and is not too yellow in color, is obtained by adding 2-(2-hydroxy-4-octyloxyphenyl)-benzotriazole to a diethylene glycol b... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6669338 | Method of using a tablet for introducing tint, UV absorbers and other chemicals into spectacle lens and optical filter tinting systems The method of using a tablet or coated tablet to introduce tint concentrate, UV absorbers, decolorant, conditioner and other optical chemistry into the dyebaths used for tinting plastic ophthalmic non-contact spectacle lenses and optical filters.... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6659608 | Polarizing optical article An object of the present invention is to provide a polarization optical article comprising a polarizer incorporated therein which provides views through sunglasses, goggles, lenses, or the like with colors close to natural colors by correcting a color hue... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6655804 | Colored contact lens and method of making same A method for coloring contact lenses comprises storing a generally annular-shaped initial iris image in a computer. The initial iris image comprises a plurality of color elements. The method further comprises applying a filtering process to the initial ir... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6655803 | Wavefront method for designing optical elements A method for designing a surface of an optical element includes the steps of prescribing initial wavefronts, selecting an initial parameterized representation of the surface, choosing a cost function in the parameters, and optimizing the cost function wit... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6655802 | Method for producing eyeglasses What is described here is a method of manufacturing spectacles comprising individual progressive ophthalmic lenses, including the following steps: selection of a spectacle frame, detection of the shape of the lens rings with a precision better than &#b... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6652095 | Orthokeratology and bi-focal contact lens A contact lens is fitted to a cornea of a patient's eye to gradually alter the patient's cornea during continued wear to reshape the cornea to reduce the hyperopia and/or presbyopia condition. The contact lens has a plurality of zones that includes one or... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6652098 | Method of designing ophthalmic lens and ophthalmic lens produced by the method A method of designing an ophthalmic lens, including: determining specifications of a temporary lens to provide an optical power required by a wearer; applying the temporary lens to a prescribed schematic eye, and effecting emmetropization of an optical sy... | 11/25/2003 |
