Johnson and Johnson Vision Care, Inc.

Atheneum Optical Sciences, LLC

Johnson & Johnson Vision Products Inc.

Other

W Anthony Martin

Douglas G Vanderlaan

Kevin P McCabe

Gregory A Hill

Robert B Steffen

Susan W Neadle

Kristy L Canavan

Dominic P Gourd

Ann-Marie Wong Meyers

Randall Pugh

Ganesh Narayanan Kumar

Hélène Aguilar

Helene Aguilar

Randall Braxton Pugh

Richard W Abrams

Victor Lust

Khaled A Chehab

Darren S Keene

Kornelis Renkema

Timothy R Poling

Wybren Van Der Meulen

Jongliang Wu

Richard J Nason

Carl G Crowe, Jr

Jon Scott Walker

Patricia Ann Hutfles

Susan-Wendy B Neadle

Ture Kindt-Larsen

Robert J Tesar

Ann W Meyers

Kevin P Mccabe

Doug G Vanderlaan

This invention relates to comfortable ophthalmic devices and methods of producing such devices by treating a polymerized ophthalmic lens with a polymeric wetting agent, wherein the ophthalmic lens does not comprise said polymeric wetting agent prior to its polymerization.

Comfortable ophthalmic device and methods of its production

Methods and apparatus for additive manufacture of an article corresponding with an energy transmissibility image. The article may include a contact lens or intraocular lens. The improvements are directed to repeated application of a monomer according to a pattern corresponding with the energy transmissibility image, such as grayscale image. The method may include intermittent pinning of deposited polymerizable mixture, partial cure, and final cure of the deposited polymerizable mixture. A pattern of multiple defined areas may be manufactured, with each area representing an amount of energy transmissibility associated with that area.

Polymeric additive manufacturing of an ophthalmic lens

Methods for additive manufacture of an article corresponding with one or more arrays of data values. The article may include, for example, an optical lens, such as a contact lens or an intraocular lens. The methods include generating an array of data values and emitting droplets of polymerizable mixture in a pattern corresponding with the arrays of data values. After receiving the droplets of polymerizable mixture on a receiving surface, the droplets are integrated and pinned via exposure to actinic conditions. Two or more patterns of droplets may be combined on the receiving surface to form a combined volume of polymerizable mixture and cured.

Methods of additive manufacturing of an article corresponding with an array of data values

Methods and apparatus for additive manufacture of an optical element corresponding with an energy transmissibility image. The optical element may include a contact lens or intraocular lens. The optical element may be formed via intermittent pinning of deposited polymerizable mixture, partial cure, and final cure of the deposited polymerizable mixture. A pattern of multiple defined areas may be manufactured, with each area representing an amount of energy transmissibility associated with each respective area.

Additive manufacturing of an optical element

Improved methods and apparatus for holding a polymeric optical lens, such as an ophthalmic lens (contact lens or intraocular lens 'IOL'); or other polymeric item; in a hydrated state in a hydrated lens inspection container (“HLIC”) that is conducive for measurement of characteristics of the ophthalmic lens (or other polymeric item) being inspected. According to the present invention, a HLIC receives the polymeric optical lens into a HLIC lens retention cavity, and a hydration fluid fills the HLIC to a level above a cavity upper edge of the HLIC container, hydration fluid is permitted to reach a level above the cavity upper edge via formation of a meniscus with the hydration liquid.

Hydrated lens inspection container

A multifocal ophthalmic lens with multiple sub-optical elements along a same optical path and methods for generating the multifocal ophthalmic lens. The method includes intermittent pinning of deposited polymerizable mixture and final cure of the deposited polymerizable mixture. The intermittent pinning may form a sub-optical element. A pattern of multiple defined areas may be manufactured, with each area representing an amount of energy transmissibility associated with that area. Each area may have a light value based upon a scale, such as an 8 bit, 16 bit, 32 bit, 64 bit scale or other scale. In some embodiments, each area may refer to a smallest single component of a digital image.

Multifocal polymeric lenses and methods of manufacture

This invention relates to comfortable ophthalmic devices and methods of producing such devices.

Improved methods and apparatus for additive manufacture of an ophthalmic lens, such as a contact lens or intraocular lens. The improvements are directed to repeated application of a monomer according to a pattern of energy transmissibility, such as grayscale image. The method includes intermittent pinning of deposited polymerizable mixture and final cure of the deposited polymerizable mixture. A pattern of multiple defied areas may be manufactured, with each area representing an amount of energy transmissibility associated with that area. Each area may have a light value based upon a scale, such as an 8 bit, 16 bit, 32 bit, 64 bit scale or other scale. In some embodiments, each area may refer to a smallest single component of a digital image.

Improved methods and apparatus for additive manufacture of an article with surface qualities conducive to use as an optical element, such as a contact lens. The improvements are directed to repeated application of a monomer according to a pattern of energy transmissibility, such as gray scale image. The method includes intermittent pinning of deposited polymerizable mixture and final cure of the deposited polymerizable mixture. A pattern of multiple defined areas may be manufactured, with each area representing an amount of energy transmissibility associated with that area. Each area may have a light value based upon a scale, such as an 8 bit, 16 bit, 32 bit, 64 bit scale or other scale. In some embodiments, each area may refer to a smallest single component of a digital image.

Polymeric additive manufacturing and ophthalmic lenses formed thereby

This invention relates to comfortable ophthalmic devices and methods of producing such devices by treating unhydrated, polymerized ophthalmic lens with a polymeric wetting agent, wherein the ophthalmic lens formulation does not comprise said wetting agent prior to its polymerization.

This invention relates to comfortable ophthalmic devices and methods of producing such devices by treating said ophthalmic lens with a wetting agent and packaging solution.

This invention relates to comfortable ophthalmic devices and methods of producing such devices. The ophthalmic devices are contacted with a polyamide wetting agent and heated to a temperature of at least about 50&#xb0; C. to about 150&#xb0; C.

A method of providing a polymerized ophthalmic lens in which a polymerized ophthalmic lens is heated with a packaging solution comprising about 100 ppm to about 3,000 ppm of a wetting agent after its polymerization, and the ophthalmic lens formulation not having the wetting agent prior to its polymerization.

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W Anthony Martin