Iovision, Inc.

Tekia, Inc.

Other

Pharmacia Iovision, Inc.

Innovative Surgical Products, Inc.

Pharmacia & Upjohn Company

American Hospital Supply Corporation

Pharmacia Corporation

Advanced Medical Optics, Inc.

Wright Medical, Inc.

Allergan Surgical

Larry W Blake

George M Wright

George Baerveldt

Lee T Nordan

Gene Currie

Ervin R Harvel

Duane R Mason

William C Huddleston

An improved intraocular lens, for example, an accommodating intraocular lens including a lens optic, the lens optic including a ring-shaped lens optic portion and/or a light window.

Intraocular lens (IOL)

An accommodating artificial ocular lens (AAOL) device including a lens optic portion connected to a pleated lens haptic portion to provide accommodation of vision of the eye.

Umbrella-shaped accommodating artificial ocular lens (AAOL) device

An accommodating artificial ocular lens (AAOL) device including a moving lens optic portion connected to a lens plate haptic portion. Preferably, the lens optic portion is connected to the lens plate haptic portion by a pair of flexible or resilient transverse oriented lens arm portions to provide or allow for movement of the lens optic portion.

Accommodating artificial ocular lens (AAOL) device

A multi-part IOL which is insertable through an opening as small as about 1 mm without deforming the haptic, is described. This IOL may be used in the anterior chamber of the eye for phakic or aphakic lenses. After insertion of the haptic into the eye, any type of lens may be attached, especially by use of cleats. The haptic is a high modulus skeletal frame, and may be assembled with lower modulus material. An eyelet may be provided on the lens allowing a cleat on the haptic to firmly attach to the optic.

Two part 'L'-shaped phakic IOL

An accommodating intraocular lens device including a lens portion connected to a plate haptic portion. Preferably, the lens portion is connected to the plate haptic portion by a pair of flexible or resilient arms.

Accommodating intraocular lens device

An aspheric soft intraocular lens, having an optical power surface, which may have multiple radii portions or aspherical portions, as well as spherical portions, intended to replace the crystalline lens of a patient's eye, in particular after a cataract extraction. Such an aspheric soft lens is molded in a coined mold. A pair of core pins, positioned within the mold cavity during the lens forming process, will produce a pair of haptic-mounting holes within the lens. As the lenses are subsequently tumbled to remove flash, indentations will form adjacent to the haptic-mounting holes. These indentations allow for tangential attachment of the haptic to the lens which, in turn, enables maximum flexibility without exceeding the width of the optic.

Aspheric soft lens

This invention discloses devices for use with an ophthalmologic insertor apparatus. In one embodiment, the device is a flexible, stretchable sleeve holder adapted to fit over a deformable sleeve that houses an implant. The sleeve holder facilitates loading of an implant into the sleeve by providing a suitable gripping surface. Application of a compressive force to the sleeve holder further allows the implant to be immobilized within the sleeve. After loading of the implant into the sleeve, the holder may be used as a collar or hub to secure the sleeve to an insertor hand-piece. Methods for loading implants into delivery sleeves, methods for attaching sleeves to inserters, and methods for delivering implants to an incision are also disclosed.

Device and method for use with an ophthalmologic insertor apparatus

A lens, having an optical power surface, which may have multiple radii portions or aspherical portions as well as spherical portions, is molded in a coined old. A pair of core pins, positioned within the mold cavity during the lens forming process, will produce a pair of haptic-mounting holes within the lens. As the lenses are subsequently tumbled to remove flash, indentations will form adjacent to the haptic-mounting holes. These indentations allow for tangential attachment of the haptic to the lens which, in turn, enables maximum flexibility without exceeding the width of the optic.

Fabrication of an intraocular lens

Phakic iol film frame

This invention discloses insertor devices that employ a flexible, deformable sleeve to house an implant. In one embodiment, a device is described that employs squeezing blades to advance an implant through the flexible sleeve into a passageway, tissue or cavity of the body. The invention further relates to holders for the sleeve to facilitate loading of an implant into the sleeve. In a preferred embodiment, the device is an insertor for a foldable lens and in particular the device is an insertor for the introduction of an intraocular lens into the eye. Methods for loading the devices of this invention with an implant, methods for making the sleeves of this invention and methods for use are discussed.

Ophthalmologic insertor apparatus and methods of use

Method of making an aspheric soft lens

An intraocular lens injector compresses an intraocular lens by rolling the lens into a tight spiral and injects the compressed lens though a relatively small incision in the eye, approximately 2-3 millimeters in length, resulting from a phacoemulsification procedure. The intraocular lens is inserted into a receiving channel of the injector in an uncompressed state and is urged into a cylindrical passageway. As the intraocular lens advances into the cylindrical passageway, the lens will roll upon itself into a tightly rolled spiral within the confines of the cylindrical passageway. An insertion rod is inserted into an open end of the cylindrical passageway and advances the compressed lens down the passageway. As the lens exits the passageway and enters the eye, the lens will expand back to its uncompressed state.

Method of using an intraocular lens injector

A lens, having an optical power surface, which may have multiple radii portions or aspherical portions as well as spherical portions, is molded in a coined mold. A pair of core pins, positioned within the mold cavity during the lens forming process, will produce a pair of haptic-mounting holes within the lens. As the lenses are subsequently tumbled to remove flash, indentations will form adjacent to the haptic-mounting holes. These indentations allow for tangential attachment of the haptic to the lens which, in turn, enables maximum flexibility without exceeding the width of the optic.

Growing community of inventors

Coto de Caza, CA, United States of America

Larry W Blake