Methods for designing multifocal ophthalmic lenses
CA 2503799 C · Owner: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. · Inventors: Davis, Brett A.; Collins, Michael J.; Roffman, Jeffrey H.
Overview
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The invention provides methods for designing lenses useful for correcting presbyopia that permits variation of the speed of the power change from distance to near vision power or near to distance vision power. The rate of change may be symmetrical around the midpoint or faster or slower on either side of the midpoint.
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- Filed October 28, 2003 and granted March 13, 2012. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 28, 2023.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by October 28, 2025.
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