Alcon, Inc.

Novartis Ag

Douglas Schlueter

Xuwei Jiang

Mutlu Karakelle

Joseph I Weinschenk, Iii

David Jinkerson

Ahmad Robert Hadba

Walter R Laredo

Stefan Troller

Lukas Scheibler

Ramiro Ribeiro

Chance Lehman

Diana M Cordova

Marcel Ackermann

Vincent Nguyen

Ali E Akinay

Albert R LeBoeuf

Water R Laredo

Walter Laredo

A method and system provide an ophthalmic lens including a lens body having a chamber therein, a reservoir module coupled with the lens body and an optical fluid. At least part of the lens body is flexible. The reservoir module includes a reservoir and a heat sensitive portion bordering the reservoir. The reservoir has a reservoir volume and is fluidically connected with the chamber. The heat sensitive portion has a shape responsive to a temperature of at least forty five degrees Celsius such that the reservoir volume changes in response to at least part of the heat sensitive portion reaching the temperature. The optical fluid resides in the chamber and the reservoir. A change in the reservoir volume flows a portion of the optical fluid between the reservoir and the chamber such that the flexible portion of the lens body undergoes a shape change corresponding to a base power change.

Heat tunable intraocular lens

Disclosed are high refractive index, hydrophobic, acrylic materials. These materials have both high refractive index and a high Abbe number. This combination means the materials have a low refractive index dispersion and thus are especially suitable for use as intraocular lens materials. The materials are also suitable for use in other implantable ophthalmic devices, such as keratoprostheses, corneal rings, corneal implants, and corneal inlays.

High refractive index, high Abbe number intraocular lens materials

Soft hydrophobic acrylic materials with improved resistance to fluid diffusion and suitable mechanical properties that allow deformation upon application of force are disclosed. The acrylic materials are particularly suitable for use in fluid-based accommodating intraocular lenses and comprises combination of a perfluoro-substituted alkyl (meth)acrylate and an alkyl (meth)acrylate, and a cross-linking agent.

Soft hydrophobic acrylic materials

High refractive index, high abbe number intraocular lens materials

Intraocular lens materials are disclosed. They are soft and very deformable and have a high refractive index, and a high glistening resistance in fully hydrated state. They are particularly suitable for making wet-packed intraocular lenses (IOLs) which can be delivered through sub 2.0 mm incisions.

Wet-pack intraocular lens materials with high refractive index

Acrylate-acrylamide copolymers are disclosed. They are rigid and glassy in dry state at room temperature (from about 23&#xb0; C. to about 28&#xb0; C.), but are soft and very deformable and have a high refractive index, a high glistening resistance and a low aging-related surface light scattering in fully hydrated state. They are particularly suitable for making wet-packed intraocular lenses (IOLs) which can be delivered through sub 2.0 mm incisions.

Low-water content acrylate-acrylamide copolymers for ophthalmic devices

Hydrophobic acrylate-acrylamide copolymers for ophthalmic devices

High refractive index acrylic device materials with reduced glistenings are disclosed. The device materials are particularly suitable for use as ophthalmic or otorhhinolaryngological device materials and comprises a poly(phenyl ether)-containing monomer and/or a poly(phenyl ether)-containing cross-linking agent.

Soft acrylic materials with high refractive index and minimized glistening

Disclosed are soft, high refractive index, acrylic device materials. The materials contain a hydrophilic side-chain macromer for glistening resistance.

Ophthalmic and otorhinolaryngological device materials

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Azle, TX, United States of America

Douglas Schlueter