B29D 11/00192
Demoulding
Official title: {Demoulding, e.g. separating lenses from mould halves}
B29D11/00192 (Demoulding) appears on 183 US grants and 175 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B29D- Granted patents
- 183
- Published applications
- 175
- Assignees
- 54
- Inventors
- 390
- Latest grant
- 26 May 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 9 | 1 |
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| 2003 | 9 | 6 |
| 2004 | 2 | 3 |
| 2005 | 3 | 4 |
| 2006 | 0 | 6 |
| 2007 | 0 | 23 |
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| 2017 | 12 | 10 |
| 2018 | 6 | 5 |
| 2019 | 7 | 11 |
| 2020 | 3 | 3 |
| 2021 | 1 | 6 |
| 2022 | 12 | 10 |
| 2023 | 5 | 9 |
| 2024 | 7 | 1 |
| 2025 | 8 | 7 |
| 2026 | 6 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- 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.
- Contact lens14 Apr 2026US 12,601,929 B2CooperVision International Limited
- Production line for the production of ophthalmic lenses20 Jan 2026US 12,528,261 B2Alcon Inc.
- Method for producing contact lenses13 Jan 2026US 12,521,948 B2Alcon Inc.
- Ophthalmic lenses and their manufacture by in-mold modification17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276864 A1Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
- Embedded contact lenses with surface and astigmatism masking30 Jul 2026US 2026/0216977 A1Alcon Inc.
- Methods and apparatus for manufacturing and shipping an optical lens adhered to a receiving surface18 Jun 2026US 2026/0166826 A1Atheneum Optical Sciences, LLC
- Production line for the production of ophthalmic lenses21 May 2026US 2026/0138342 A1Alcon Inc.
- Production line for the production of ophthalmic lenses7 May 2026US 2026/0124815 A1Alcon Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Mold material made with additives162US 5,849,209 AJohnson & Johnson Vision Products, Inc. · 1998
- Surface treatment of silicone hydrogel contact lenses comprising hydrophilic polymer chains attached to an intermediate carbon coating144US 6,630,243 B2Bausch & Lomb Incorporated · 2003
- Plasma surface treatment of silicone hydrogel contact lenses134US 6,193,369 B1Bausch & Lomb Incorporated · 2001
- Shape memory styrene copolymer128US 6,759,481 B22004
- Method for reducing lens hole defects in production of contact lens blanks108US 5,849,222 AJohnson & Johnson Vision Products, Inc. · 1998