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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 1997
Filed:
May. 09, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Amitava Gupta, Bethesda, MD (US);
Richard Mackool, Greenwich, CT (US);
Assignee:
Prism Opthalmics, L.L.C., Roanoke, VA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
623-6 ; 351161 ;
Abstract
A pair of intraocular lenses for restoring visual function to a patient with central field loss. The pair of intraocular lenses includes a first lens for implantation into a first eye of the patient to provide vision of targets located at a distance greater than five feet from the first eye and a second lens for implantation into a second eye of the patient to provide vision of targets at a distance less than twelve inches from the second eye. The first and second lenses each include a prismatic wedge for shifting retinal images to a functional portion of a retina of each respective first and second eye.