A61L 12/02
Methods or apparatus for disinfecting or sterilising contact lenses: using physical phenomena
Official title: using physical phenomena, e.g. electricity, ultrasound or ultrafiltration
A61L12/02 (Methods or apparatus for disinfecting or sterilising contact lenses: using physical phenomena) appears on 206 US grants and 144 published applications in this corpus.
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Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Methods and systems for solvent-free cleaning of surfaces10 Mar 2026US 12,570,930 B2Georgia Tech Research Corporation
- Towel heating device30 Dec 2025US 12,507,836 B2Guangzhou Hansong Tuojiang Technology Co., Ltd.
- Comfortable ophthalmic device and methods of its production4 Nov 2025US 12,461,280 B2Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
- Contact lens product14 Oct 2025US 12,442,956 B2Largan Medical Co., Ltd.
- Method for producing coated medical device15 Jul 2025US 12,360,397 B2Toray Industries, Inc.
- Disinfection devices for eye care accessories and methods of use8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306696 A1Drop Mate, Inc.
- Method and device for cleaning and sterilizing contact lens using electrochemistry17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273125 A1Suzhou 3N Biological Technology Co., Ltd
- Coated device and method for manufacturing same6 Aug 2026US 2026/0226285 A1Toray Industries, Inc.
- Surface modified silicone ophthalmic devices28 May 2026US 2026/0147141 A1Bausch + Lomb Ireland Limited
- Towel heating device11 Sep 2025US 2025/0281007 A1Guangzhou Hansong Electric Technology Co., Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- Process for sterilizing articles and providing sterile storage environments416US 5,618,492 A1997
- Computer system for quality control correlations113US 5,461,570 AJohnson & Johnson Vision Products, Inc. · 1995
- Parametric control in pulsed light sterilization of packages and their contents82US 5,925,885 APurePulse Technologies, Inc. · 1999
- Sterilization of packages and their contents using high-intensity, short-duration pulses of incoherent, polychromatic light in a broad spectrum78US 5,786,598 APurePulse Technologies, Inc. · 1998
- Sterilization system76US 6,592,816 B1Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. · 2003