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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2002
Gerardo J. Ocampo, Bridgeview, IL (US);
Wesley Jessen Company, Des Plains, IL (US);
Abstract
A colored contact lens ( ) having a non-opaque pupil section ( ), an iris section ( ) surrounding the pupil section ( ), and a colored, opaque intermittent pattern made up of a plurality of elements located over the entire iris section ( ) that leaves asubstantial portion within the interstices of the pattern non-opaque, the pattern covering an effective amount of the iris section ( ) to change the apparent color of the iris, the pattern having a plurality of portions, each of the portions being a different shade from each other portion, each of the portions overlapping each other portion at a plurality of points, where at least one of the plurality of portions contains a design selected from the group consisting of uniform and non-uniform dots, islands of color, worms, starbursts, corkscrews, spokes, spikes, striations, radial stripes, zig-zags and streaks, thereby providing a lens ( ) capable of changing the apparent color of the iris of a person wearing the lens ( ) and imparting a very natural appearance.