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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Wesley Jessen Corporation, Des Plaines, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
351162 ; 351161 ; 351177 ; 359738 ;
Abstract
A contact lens comprising an optically transparent lens body having a concave surface adapted to the patient's eye curvature and a convex surface. The lens has three regions: (1) an annular region of a first optical power; (2) at the center of said annular region, which is also at the optical center of said lens, a substantially pinhole-like aperture; and (3) a second larger annular region exterior to the first annular region.