B29D 11/00134
Curing of the contact lens material
Official title: {Curing of the contact lens material}
B29D11/00134 (Curing of the contact lens material) appears on 248 US grants and 318 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B29D- Granted patents
- 248
- Published applications
- 318
- Assignees
- 74
- Inventors
- 447
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2003 | 1 | 6 |
| 2004 | 3 | 3 |
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| 2006 | 2 | 4 |
| 2007 | 3 | 7 |
| 2008 | 2 | 4 |
| 2009 | 0 | 7 |
| 2010 | 4 | 7 |
| 2011 | 2 | 6 |
| 2012 | 9 | 11 |
| 2013 | 2 | 15 |
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| 2015 | 11 | 5 |
| 2016 | 8 | 18 |
| 2017 | 12 | 32 |
| 2018 | 15 | 30 |
| 2019 | 23 | 24 |
| 2020 | 16 | 21 |
| 2021 | 15 | 15 |
| 2022 | 16 | 20 |
| 2023 | 16 | 20 |
| 2024 | 18 | 17 |
| 2025 | 18 | 19 |
| 2026 | 9 | 14 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- 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.
- Ophthalmic lenses and their manufacture by in-mold modification26 May 2026US 12,638,613 B2Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
- Method for making silicone hydrogel contact lenses26 May 2026US 12,638,614 B2Alcon Inc.
- Method for making embedded hydrogel contact lenses3 Feb 2026US 12,539,650 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
- Pigment encapsulation layer for contact lenses25 Jun 2026US 2026/0175528 A1Alcon Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Photocrosslinked polymers238US 5,508,317 ACiba-Geigy Corporation · 1996
- Photocrosslinked polymers182US 5,849,810 ACIBA Vision Corporation · 1998
- Process and device for the manufacture of mouldings and mouldings manufactured in accordance with that process176US 6,800,225 B1Novartis AG · 2004
- Photocrosslinked polymers163US 5,583,163 ACiba-Geigy Corporation · 1996
- Photocrosslinked polymers157US 5,789,464 ACIBA Vision Corporation · 1998