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US 12,595,356 B2Granted
Composite particle and use thereof in optical filtration
AssigneeColoursmith Labs Inc.
InventorsWilliam Curtis, Morrgan Payne, Raymond Bennett, Gabrielle Tina Masone
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a composite particle comprising a dye, an amphiphilic block copolymer and a free radical scavenger, and the use thereof in the preparation of ophthalmic lenses and/or thin-film coating such as sol-gel coating on ophthalmic lenses. The present disclosure also relates to methods of optical filtration using the composite particles of the present disclosure.
Claims20
A composite particle comprising:
- a dye having an absorbance in the range of from the ultraviolet (UV) region to the infrared (IR) region of the electromagnetic spectrum;
- a free radical scavenger;
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- an amphiphilic block copolymer encapsulating the dye and the free radical scavenger.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.