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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2003
Ming YE, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Curtis Dean Mckenney, Duluth, GA (US);
Ming Ye, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Curtis Dean McKenney, Duluth, GA (US);
Novartis AG, Basel, CH;
Abstract
The present invention provides a contact lens comprising a convex surface and a concave surface, one or both of the surfaces comprising: a) a central optical zone that is an aspherical sub-surface; b) a transition zone that is adjacent to said central optical zone, wherein and is a rotationally symmetric off-center sphere sub-surface; and c) a peripheral zone that comprises one or more sphere sub-surfaces, wherein all sub-surfaces are tangent to each other. By having a transition zone of the present invention, flexion points at the junction of optical zone with peripheral zone can be eliminated. The present invention also provides a method for producing a contact lens of the present invention.