B29D 11/00125
Auxiliary operations
Official title: {Auxiliary operations, e.g. removing oxygen from the mould, conveying moulds from a storage to the production line in an inert atmosphere}
B29D11/00125 (Auxiliary operations) appears on 675 US grants and 762 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B29D- Granted patents
- 675
- Published applications
- 762
- Assignees
- 163
- Inventors
- 1,188
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 18 | 20 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Method for preparing a contact lens containing deprotected ultraviolet blockers15 Sep 2026US 12,734,773 B2Bausch + Lomb Ireland Limited
- Sandwiched colored hydrogel contact lenses15 Sep 2026US 12,736,714 B2Alcon Inc.
- Apparatus and method for photolithographically forming an ophthalmic lens8 Sep 2026US 12,728,606 B2Alcon Inc.
- Method for making embedded hydrogel contact lenses25 Aug 2026US 12,715,186 B2Alcon Inc.
- Method for producing wettable silicone hydrogel contact lenses11 Aug 2026US 12,703,161 B2Alcon Inc.
- Ophthalmic lenses and their manufacture by in-mold modification17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276864 A1Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
- Silicone prepolymer and contact lens formed therefrom10 Sep 2026US 2026/0263358 A1
- Embedded contact lenses with surface and astigmatism masking30 Jul 2026US 2026/0216977 A1Alcon Inc.
- Red-light blocking ink binder for contact lenses16 Jul 2026US 2026/0201187 A1Bausch + Lomb Ireland Limited
- Red-light blocking ink binder for contact lenses16 Jul 2026US 2026/0201188 A1Bausch + Lomb Ireland Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- Long wearable soft contact lens322US 6,867,245 B2Asahikasei Aime Co., Ltd · 2005
- Preparation of hydrogel for soft contact lens with water displaceable boric acid ester304US 4,495,313 AMia Lens Production A/S · 1985
- Photocrosslinked polymers238US 5,508,317 ACiba-Geigy Corporation · 1996
- Mold for making contact lenses, the male mold member being more flexible than the female mold member215US 4,565,348 AMia Lens Production A/S · 1986
- Method for molding lenses214US 5,271,875 ABausch & Lomb Incorporated · 1993