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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2022
Applicant:
Tearoptix, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventors:
Vance M. Thompson, Sioux Falls, SD (US);
Amitava Gupta, Roanoke, VA (US);
Assignee:
TearOptix, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02C 7/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02C 7/047 (2013.01); G02C 7/049 (2013.01);
Abstract
A lens for refractive tear shaping, including a curved lens body defining a central cavity indented into its posterior surface. The central cavity has a posterior facing tear shaping surface structured to form a tear lens within the central cavity. The central cavity is structured to define a tear lens within the central cavity by interaction between a tear film of the eye and the posterior facing tear shaping surface. The anterior curvature of the tear lens being dependent on the shape of the tear shaping surface.