J & J has received patent in India for multifocal contact lens designs

Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Inc has received patent in India for multifocal contact lens designs, for contact lens for the aged especially patients with presbyopia. There are many different products on the market that can help people with getting stronger and clearer eyesight, from prescription contact lenses to a LASIK Eye Surgery Brookfield clinic, people are searching for ways that they can ditch the glasses for good and live a ‘better sighted’ life, however, it is different for everyone, so people need to do their research first and see which may be the best route for them to go down. Hopefully, these lenses will provide a good level of support for those aged patients who have issues with their eyesight and are in desperate need of getting this rectified.

  • As an individual ages, their eye is less able to accommodate or bend the natural lens to focus on objects relatively nearer to the observer. This condition is known as presbyopia.
  • Johnson and Johnson has its multifocal lenses sold under its contact lenses brand Acuvue, to address the issue of presbyopia.
  • According to the specification the company filed with the patent office, the invention provides contact lenses that provide correction for presbyopia using multifocal designs that are scaled to an individual, or group of individuals, based on both pupil size and the Stiles-Crawf 3rd effect.
  • It says that the pupil size of the individuals vary with age, luminance and distance frmo the eye to the object being viewed and as the luminance increases, the size of pupil has to be decreased. However, in aged individual, the response of the pupils to change when it comes against luminance are decreased.

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