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High plus treatment zone lens design and method for preventing and/or slowing myopia progression

US10359646B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. · US

Inventors

Noel A. Brennan · Ponte Vedra, US
Khaled Chehab · Jacksonville, US
Xu Cheng · Woodlawn, US
Michael J. Collins · Mount Nebo, AU
Manwai Charis Lau · Jacksonville, US
Eric R. Ritchey · Pearland, US
Xin Wei · Jacksonville, US

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 17, 2017
Grant date	Jul 23, 2019
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 17, 2037

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG02C2202/24
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Contact lenses incorporate high plus or add power profiles that at least one of slow, retard or preventing myopia progression and minimize halo effect. The lens includes a center zone with a negative power for myopic vision correction; and at least one treatment zone surrounding the center zone, the at least one treatment zone having a power profile that increases from an outer margin of the center zone to a positive power within the at least one treatment zone of greater than +5.00 D.

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