B29D 11/00076
Enabling passage of fluids
Official title: {enabling passage of fluids, e.g. oxygen, tears, between the area under the lens and the lens exterior}
B29D11/00076 (Enabling passage of fluids) appears on 97 US grants and 63 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B29D- Granted patents
- 97
- Published applications
- 63
- Assignees
- 41
- Inventors
- 204
- Latest grant
- 14 Apr 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of producing annealed polyvinyl alcohol contact lens782US 4,619,793 ACiba-Geigy Corporation · 1986
- Extended wear ophthalmic lens578US 5,760,100 ACIBA Vision Corporation · 1998
- Contact device for placement in direct apposition to the conjunctive of the eye493US 6,312,393 B12001
- Method and apparatus for signal acquisition, processing and transmission for evaluation of bodily functions399US 6,120,460 A2000
- Soft corneal contact lens with tightly cross-linked polymer coating and method of making same307US 4,312,575 A1982