Amo Wavefront Sciences, LLC

Wavefront Sciences, Inc.

Amo Development, LLC

Wavefront Dynamics, Inc.

Sandia Corporation

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Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Carl Zeiss Meditec Ag

Abbott Medical Optics Inc.

Daniel Ralph Neal

Carmen Canovas Vidal

Hong Fu

Thomas Daniel Raymond

Richard James Copland

Dimitri A Chernyak

Stephen W Farrer

Daniel Richard Hamrick

Paul D Pulaski

Wei Xiong

Ron R Rammage

William Shea Powers

Larry B Voss

Leander Zickler

John G Dixson

David Austin Neal

R James Copland

James Copland

Justin D Mansell

Phillip Riera

Darrell J Armstrong

Xifeng Xiao

Charles E Campbell

Chad Byron Moore

Pablo Artal

Alireza Malek Tabrizi

Jeff Kolberg

W Shea Powers

John Grant Dixson

Daniel M Topa

Alan Howard Greenaway

Lyle Kordonowy

David M Faichnie

Graham N Craik

Heather I Campbell Dalgarno

William T Turner

Alan Blair

Chee Kiong Fong

Carol I Ashby

Satish Herekar

G Allen Vawter

Hartmut Vogelsang

John M Davis

Dan Z Reinstein

John P Hohimer

J David Egner

Roy J Askeland

Kyung Min Kim

Jason Hoy

Joshua Isaac Nielsen

Zino Altman

Marcus E Walker

Keith Stantz

Matthew Haugo

Ron Rammage

Paul Pulaski

J Glen House

Scott Rea

Andrew Murrell

Ryan Mavity

Gregory M Kabel

Duncan H Stewart

Jonathan J Schneider

Justin Mansell

Stewart M Cameron

David E Bliss

Mark W Kimmel

W J Alford

James K Gruetzner

Robert B Michie

Brian S Brookover

Melissa VonOhlen

Gage Owens

Ryan Wallway

Colton Buechel

Haley Holcombe

C David Baer

Christopher Burak

Guangming G Dai

Method steps for correcting vision in an eye that uses a customized phakic IOL composing: (1) measuring one or more wavefront aberrations of the eye: (2) designing a wavefront-customized correction profile for an Intraocular Lens (IOL); (3) creating a customized IOL with the customized correction profile; and (4) implanting the customized IOL in the eye. Alternatively, an uncorrected IOL is first implanted and aligned in the eye, followed by in-situ scanning a femtosecond laser spot across the implanted IOL to locally change the Index of Refraction of the IOL material and create an in-situ customized IOL.

Methods for customizing intraocular lens using an optical aberrometer

This invention comprises a combined optical wavefront aberrometer and topographer system that is used in conjunction with a contact lens that has a plurality of fiducial marks disposed on the lens. The fiducial marks are located radially inside of the undilated pupil's diameter. The optical imaging capacity of the aberrometer is used to measure and monitor any misalignments of the contact lens's position (XY decentration) and/or rotation. Image analysis algorithms are used to track the positions of the fiducial marks, and, hence, the amount of geometric misalignment of the contact lens can be calculated. The fiducial marks can comprise micro ink spots, or depressions in the surface of the contact lens (e.g., divots, dimples, pits), or other small surface features, including raised bumps, which can help to stabilize motions of the contact lens on the eye.

Methods and system to identify position, rotation, and tilt of a contact lens on an eye

A method and device: pass a probe beam to the retina of an eye through a refractive region of a combined diffractive-re-fractive intraocular lens (IOL) which is implanted into the eye; provide light returned from the retina to a wavefront sensor which includes a detector array and images the returned light onto the detector array to produce a first set of light spots which returned from the retina through the refractive region of the combined diffractive-refractive IOL and a second set of light spots which returned from the retina through a diffractive region of the combined diffractive-refractive IOL; select a first region of the detector array which includes at least some of the first set of light spots and excludes the second set of light spots; and determines a refraction of the eye with the combined diffractive-refractive IOL implanted therein using only data from the first set of light spots.

Method and system for making optical measurement of eye

A system for correcting vision in an eye that uses a premium, customized IOL, the system comprising: (1) optical aberrometer means for measuring wavefront aberrations of the eye; (2) computer means for designing a wavefront-customized correction profile for the IOL; (3) manufacturing means for creating a customized IOL with the wavefront-corrected profile; and (4) surgical means for implanting the customized IOL in the eye. Alternatively an uncorrected IOL is first implanted and aligned in the eye, followed by in-situ scanning a femtosecond laser spot across the implanted IOL to locally change an index of Refraction of the IOL material in-situ.

Optical aberrometer systems for customizing intraocular lens

This invention, a Purkinjenator™ optical system, is an eye-tracker and methodology for tracking Purkinje reflection images from a human eye in real-time, which allows for the XYZ position and tip/tilt of structures inside the eye to be determined in real-time. When used in combination with programmable groups of IR LED light sources, unique patterns of Purkinje reflections from internal surfaces (and corneal surfaces) can be identified. Thus, XYZ positioning and tip/tilt of internal structures can be accurately and rapidly determined. An Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) optical system can be combined with the Purkinjenator™ optical system to provide Z-axis distance information.

Methods for dynamic position measurement of ocular structures using purkinje reflection spots

This invention relates to optical methods and optical systems for making both on-axis and wide-field, peripheral off-axis wavefront measurements of an eye; and for designing and manufacturing wavefront-guided customized contact lens useful for myopia control. The wide-field optical instrument can comprise either (1) a multi-axis optical configuration using multiple off-axis beamlets, or (2) an instrument comprising a rotatable scanning mirror that generates off-axis probe beams.

Wide-field multi-axis aberrometer

Devices, systems, and methods that facilitate optical analysis, particularly for the diagnosis and treatment of refractive errors of the eye. An optical diagnostic method for an eye includes obtaining a sequence of aberration measurements of the eye, identifying an outlier aberration measurement of the sequence of aberration measurements, and excluding the outlier aberration measurement from the sequence of aberration measurements to produce a qualified sequence of aberration measurements. The sequence of aberrations measurements can be obtained by using a wavefront sensor. An optical correction for the eye can be formulated in response to the qualified sequence of aberration measurements.

Optical diagnosis using measurement sequence

An apparatus and method: project a plurality of light spots onto a cornea of an eye having a tear film disposed thereon, wherein the light spots are broadband light spots or are narrowband light spots whose bandwidth is tuned in time across a broad bandwidth; image the light spots from the cornea onto at least one two-dimensional detector array; spectrally resolve each of the plurality of imaged light spots; perform interferometry on the spectrally resolved imaged light spots to identify an anterior interface and a posterior interface of the tear film of the eye; and determine a thickness of the tear film as a distance between the anterior interface and the posterior interface.

Methods and systems for thickness measurements using spectrally resolved full gradient topography

A method and system for correcting vision in an eye that uses a wavefront-customized phakic or pseudophakic Intraocular Lens (IOL), the method comprising: (1) measuring wavefront aberrations of the eye; (2) designing a wavefront-customized correction profile for an IOL; (3) creating a customized IOL with the customized correction profile; and (4) implanting the customized IOL in the eye, without having to remove the natural lens. Alternatively, an uncorrected IOL is implanted first, followed by scanning a femtosecond laser spot across the implanted IOL to locally change the Index of Refraction of the IOL material and create an in-situ customized IOL.

System and methods for customizing an intraocular lens using a wavefront aberrometer

This invention relates to methods and devices for designing customized contact lenses, by initially making dynamic wavefront sensor measurements through a trial contact lens that is fitted on an eye, and then calculating a WaveFront Guided (WFG) correction to be applied to the trial contact lens that reduces the RMS level of aberrations as much as practically possible. The output of the wavefront correction program is a customized lathe file that the manufacturer can use to make customized contact lenses on a lathe. The method works best for soft contact lenses and scleral lenses.

Aberrometer with a dynamically adjustable video fixation target

An optical measurement system and apparatus for carrying out cataract diagnostics in an eye of a patient includes a Corneal Topography Subsystem, a wavefront aberrometer subsystem, and an eye structure imaging subsystem, wherein the subsystems have a shared optical axis, and each subsystem is operatively coupled to the others via a controller. The eye structure imaging subsystem is preferably a fourierdomain optical coherence tomographer, and more preferably, a swept source OCT.

Optical imaging and measurement systems and methods for cataract surgery and treatment planning

A system includes: a group of first light sources arranged around a central axis, the group being separated from the axis by a radial distance defining an aperture in the group; a plurality of second light sources; a detector array; and an optical system adapted to provide light from the second light sources through the aperture to a cornea of an eye, and to provide images of the first light sources and images of the second light sources from the cornea, through the aperture, to the detector array. The optical system includes a field flattener such that a shape of a surface of best focus on the detector array curves away from detector array in generally a same direction as the eye and a sclera of the eye.

Methods and systems for corneal topography with in-focus scleral imaging

An optical coherence tomography (OCT) system includes: a light source; a multi-focal delay line; and a light detector. The multi-focal delay line includes: a positive lens; and an optical switch configured to: receive a light from the light source; selectively direct the sample light to the positive lens via a selected one of a plurality of light interfaces each located a different distance from the focal plane of the positive lens; and direct the sample light to an object to be measured. The light detector is configured to receive return light returned from the object to be measured in response to the sample light, and to receive a reference light produced from the light from the light source, and in response thereto to detect at least one interference signal. An associated OCT method may be performed with the OCT system.

Systems and methods of optical coherence tomography with a multi-focal delay line

An optical measurement system method for measuring a characteristic of a subject's eye use a probe beam having an infrared wavelength in the infrared spectrum to measure a refraction of the subject's eye at the infrared wavelength; capture at least two different Purkinje images at two different corresponding wavelengths from at least one surface of the lens of the subject's eye; determine from the at least two different Purkinje images a value for at least one parameter of the subject's eye; use the value of the at least one parameter to determine a customized chromatic adjustment factor for the subject's eye; and correct the measured refraction of the subject's eye at the infrared wavelength with the customized chromatic adjustment factor to determine a refraction of the subject's eye at a visible wavelength in the visible spectrum.

Optical measurement systems and methods with custom chromatic aberration adjustments

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