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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2022
Coopervision International Limited, Fareham, GB;
Erwin C. Si, Alameda, CA (US);
Victoria Rogers, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Nancy J. Keir, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Subam Basuthkar Sundar Rao, San Ramon, CA (US);
Arthur Bradley, Bloomington, IN (US);
COOPERVISION INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, Fareham, GB;
Abstract
A WS12-releasing contact lens is described as well as method of manufacturing the same. The WS12-releasing contact lens comprises a polymeric lens body and WS12 releasably adhered to the polymeric lens body, and releases from 0.05 μg to 0.5 μg WS12 after 1 hour in a release media or when worn by a human subject. The WS12-releasing contact lens can be comfortably worn by a symptomatic contact lens wearer and can increase the duration of comfortable lens wearing time and/or reduce lens awareness events and/or reduce contact lens dryness in a symptomatic contact lens wearer.