B29D 11/00509
To make toric lenses
Official title: {to make toric lenses}
B29D11/00509 (To make toric lenses) appears on 24 US grants and 21 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B29D- Granted patents
- 24
- Published applications
- 21
- Assignees
- 9
- Inventors
- 69
- Latest grant
- 31 Mar 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2009 | 0 | 1 |
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| 2015 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 3 |
| 2020 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 3 | 1 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4 |
| 2023 | 2 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Mold unit for molding ophthalmic lenses31 Mar 2026US 12,589,564 B2Alcon Inc.
- Method and assembly for forming an intraocular lens21 Oct 2025US 12,447,702 B2AMO Groningen B. V.
- Method for providing a male mold half for molding a toric ophthalmic lens at a predetermined target rotational orientation10 Sep 2024US 12,083,756 B2Alcon Inc.
- Method and assembly for forming an intraocular lens9 Apr 2024US 11,951,699 B2AMO Groningen B. V.
- Modular production line for the production of ophthalmic lenses5 Sep 2023US 11,745,452 B2Alcon Inc.
- Method and assembly for forming an intraocular lens11 Jul 2024US 2024/0227331 A1AMO Groningen B. V.
- Method and assembly for forming an intraocular lens9 Feb 2023US 2023/0038204 A1AMO Groningen B. V.
- Method and apparatus for forming a lens9 Jun 2022US 2022/0176660 A1
- Mold unit for molding ophthalmic lenses19 May 2022US 2022/0152958 A1Alcon Inc.
- Modular production line for the production of ophthalmic lenses17 Mar 2022US 2022/0082861 A1Alcon Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of cast molding toric contact lenses66US 5,611,970 ABausch & Lomb Incorporated · 1997
- Contact lens mold53US 6,997,428 B1Novartis AG · 2006
- Contact lens casting mould51US 5,252,056 ACiba-Geigy Corporation · 1993
- Mold for making contact lenses14US 6,732,993 B2Ocular Sciences, Inc. · 2004
- Toric axis alignment machine and method12US 6,197,227 B1Bausch & Lomb Incorporated · 2001