B29D 11/00067
Hydrating contact lenses
Official title: {Hydrating contact lenses}
B29D11/00067 (Hydrating contact lenses) appears on 168 US grants and 192 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B29D- Granted patents
- 168
- Published applications
- 192
- Assignees
- 47
- Inventors
- 349
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
Filings by year
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| 2024 | 5 | 6 |
| 2025 | 14 | 12 |
| 2026 | 2 | 15 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Method for producing wettable silicone hydrogel contact lenses11 Aug 2026US 12,703,161 B2Alcon Inc.
- Production line for the production of ophthalmic lenses6 Jan 2026US 12,515,424 B2Alcon Inc.
- Methods and apparatus for producing contact lenses30 Dec 2025US 12,508,787 B2CooperVision International Limited
- Comfortable ophthalmic device and methods of its production4 Nov 2025US 12,461,280 B2Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
- Contact lenses with surfaces having different softness30 Sep 2025US 12,429,712 B2Alcon Inc.
- Silicone prepolymer and contact lens formed therefrom10 Sep 2026US 2026/0263358 A1
- Red-light filtering ink binder for contact lenses23 Jul 2026US 2026/0209532 A1Bausch + Lomb Ireland Limited
- Red-light filtering ink binder for contact lenses23 Jul 2026US 2026/0209533 A1Bausch + Lomb Ireland Limited
- Red-light blocking ink binder for contact lenses16 Jul 2026US 2026/0201187 A1Bausch + Lomb Ireland Limited
- A sterile contact lens 3d printing method and device18 Jun 2026US 2026/0166825 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Soft contact lenses displaying superior on-eye comfort131US 7,461,937 B2Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. · 2008
- Process for hydrating soft contact lenses110US 5,080,839 AJohnson & Johnson Vision Products, Inc. · 1992
- Chamber for hydrating contact lenses97US 5,094,609 AVistakon, Inc. · 1992
- Silicone hydrogel lens with a crosslinked hydrophilic coating96US 8,529,057 B2Novartis AG · 2013
- Silicone hydrogel lenses with water-rich surfaces93US 8,480,227 B2Novartis AG · 2013