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US 5,495,305 AGranted
Method for simulation of visual disabilities
AssigneeBloom & Kreten
InventorsNeil F. Martin, Howard N. Robinson
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Abstract
The disclosed invention is directed to contact lenses whose light transmission has been so modified as to produce visual distortions simulating various eye conditions and particularly simulated possible postoperative visual distortions and anomalies.
Claims4
A method of obtaining informed consent from a patient prior to opthalmic surgery,
- the improvement comprising fitting the patient with a deride, the field of vision of which has been modified to simulate an ophthalmologic distortion or anomaly which might be experienced post-operatively by the patient as a result of said opthalmic surgery and then,
- obtaining said informed consent from said patient.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.