B29L 2011/0041
Contact lenses
Official title: {Contact lenses}
B29L2011/0041 (Contact lenses) appears on 317 US grants and 324 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B29L- Granted patents
- 317
- Published applications
- 324
- Assignees
- 95
- Inventors
- 660
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1983 | 7 | 0 |
| 1984 | 3 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 7 | 0 |
| 2001 | 10 | 4 |
| 2002 | 6 | 19 |
| 2003 | 10 | 25 |
| 2004 | 10 | 11 |
| 2005 | 14 | 19 |
| 2006 | 10 | 13 |
| 2007 | 5 | 32 |
| 2008 | 5 | 11 |
| 2009 | 6 | 14 |
| 2010 | 14 | 11 |
| 2011 | 4 | 7 |
| 2012 | 6 | 6 |
| 2013 | 9 | 10 |
| 2014 | 4 | 11 |
| 2015 | 7 | 14 |
| 2016 | 13 | 18 |
| 2017 | 13 | 19 |
| 2018 | 21 | 12 |
| 2019 | 11 | 8 |
| 2020 | 8 | 9 |
| 2021 | 7 | 5 |
| 2022 | 2 | 7 |
| 2023 | 5 | 8 |
| 2024 | 15 | 14 |
| 2025 | 5 | 11 |
| 2026 | 4 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Apparatus and methods for molding rigid ocular lenses8 Sep 2026US 12,728,607 B2Menicon Co., Ltd.
- Method for making embedded hydrogel contact lenses25 Aug 2026US 12,715,186 B2Alcon Inc.
- Method to manufacture a mold for lenses, and corresponding mold28 Jul 2026US 12,691,650 B2Leonardo Vision S.R.L.
- Customized 3D printing lens design integrating visible-light optical coherence tomography12 May 2026US 12,623,407 B2Northwestern University
- Methods and apparatus for producing contact lenses30 Dec 2025US 12,508,787 B2CooperVision International Limited
- 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.
- A sterile contact lens 3d printing method and device18 Jun 2026US 2026/0166825 A1
- Methods and apparatus for manufacturing and shipping an optical lens adhered to a receiving surface18 Jun 2026US 2026/0166826 A1Atheneum Optical Sciences, LLC
- Thermal curing apparatus29 Jan 2026US 2026/0027792 A1Alcon Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Extended wear ophthalmic lens578US 5,760,100 ACIBA Vision Corporation · 1998
- Process for making silicone containing hydrogel lenses331US 5,260,000 ABausch & Lomb Incorporated · 1993
- Extended wear ophthalmic lens280US 5,849,811 ACIBA Vision Corporation · 1998
- Extended wear ophthalmic lens245US 5,965,631 ACIBA Vision Corporation · 1999
- Photocrosslinked polymers238US 5,508,317 ACiba-Geigy Corporation · 1996