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Granted Patent B2
US 12,127,934 · App. 16/818,970 · Granted Oct 29, 2024

Method of Providing Modified Monovision to a Subject with a First Lens and a Second Lens

Inventors: Candido Dionisio Pinto (Monrovia, CA); Constance Elizabeth Fay (Pasadena, CA)
Assignee: STAAR Surgical Company
A61F2/164A61F2/1602A61F2/1613A61F2/1643A61F2/1645A61F2002/1681
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Patent No.
US 12,127,934
App. No.
16/818,970
Granted
Oct 29, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

Methods of vision correction that include implanting a first lens and a second lens of a lens pair. The methods include implanting the first lens into a first eye of the subject, the first lens configured with first extended depth of field, and implanting the second lens into a second eye of the subject, the second lens configured with second extended depth of field, where the second eye is different than the first eye.

Claims (15)

1. A method of providing modified monovision to a subject with a first lens and a second lens, comprising:

implanting the first lens into a first eye of the subject, the first lens configured with a first extended depth of field,

wherein anterior and posterior surfaces of an optic of the first lens are shaped to provide average modulation transfer function (MTF) values that are between 0.1 and 0.4 at 100 lines per millimeter for at least 90% of the object vergences within the range of 0 to 2.0 D or 0 to 2.5 D when the optic of the first lens is inserted into a model eye having an aperture size from 4 to 6 millimeters, wherein the average MTF values of the first lens comprise MTF values at 100 lines per millimeter integrated over the wavelengths between about 400 to 700 nm weighted by the photopic luminosity function for on axis objects; and

implanting the second lens into a second eye of the subject, the second lens configured with a second extended depth of field,

wherein anterior and posterior surfaces of an optic of the second lens are shaped to provide average modulation transfer function (MTF) values that are between 0.1 and 0.4 at 100 lines per millimeter for at least 90% of the object vergences within the range of −2.0 to 0 D or −2.5 to 0 D when the optic of the second lens is inserted into a model eye having an aperture size from 4 to 6 millimeters, wherein the average MTF values of the second lens comprise MTF values at 100 lines per millimeter integrated over the wavelengths between about 400 to 700 nm weighted by the photopic luminosity function for on axis objects,

the second eye different than the first eye,

wherein implanting the first lens with the first extended depth of field provides the subject an extended depth of field in the direction of nearer objects, and

wherein implanting the second lens with the second extended depth of field provides the subject an extended depth of field in the direction of more distant objects.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the aggregate depth of field provided by the first and second lenses is greater than the depth of field provided by the first lens or the second lens alone.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first eye is a dominant eye such that implanting the first lens comprises implanting the first lens in the subject's dominant eye.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the second eye is a non-dominant eye, such that implanting the second lens comprises implanting the second lens in the subject's non-dominant eye.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first lens is configured to correct distance vision.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the second lens is configured to correct near vision.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising correcting hyperopia, wherein one or both of the implanted first and second lenses corrects hyperopia.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising correcting myopia, wherein one or both of the implanted first and second lenses correct myopia.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 15, 2023
From: PINTO, CANDIDO DIONISIO; FAY, CONSTANCE ELIZABETH
To: STAAR SURGICAL COMPANY
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Continuity (11)
Continuation In Part 16693860 · Nov 25, 2019
Continuation In Part 16126806 · Sep 10, 2018
Continuation In Part 15453211 · Mar 8, 2017
Continuation 14848082 · Sep 8, 2015
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