Contact lenses with off-center sphere surface

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6883915
APP PUB NO 20030160941A1
SERIAL NO

10364736

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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.

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  • NOVARTIS AG

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
McKenney, Curtis Dean Duluth, GA 9 323
Ye, Ming Fort Worth, TX 45 1109

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