US 11,986,669 B2
Device for projecting images on the retina
Ryo Kubota, Seattle, WA (US); Karim Haroud, Villeneuve (CH); Beat Wyss, Niederbipp (CH); Hans Bernhard, Schliern (CH); Jean-Noel Fehr, Neuchatel (CH); Patrizia Weber, Bern (CH); Moritz Haeberli, Zurich (CH); and Amitava Gupta, Seattle, WA (US)
Assigned to ACUCELA INC., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed by ACUCELA INC., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed on Jan. 11, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/153,000.
Application 17/662,098 is a division of application No. 16/947,537, filed on Aug. 5, 2020, granted, now 11,358,001, issued on Jun. 14, 2022.
Application 18/153,000 is a continuation of application No. 17/662,098, filed on May 5, 2022, granted, now 11,583,696.
Application 16/947,537 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US2020/044571, filed on Jul. 31, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/925,948, filed on Oct. 25, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/907,496, filed on Sep. 27, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/885,035, filed on Aug. 9, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/881,123, filed on Jul. 31, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0144121 A1, May 11, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61N 5/06 (2006.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G02B 27/30 (2006.01)
CPC A61N 5/0622 (2013.01) [G02B 27/0172 (2013.01); G02B 27/30 (2013.01); A61N 2005/063 (2013.01); A61N 2005/0648 (2013.01); A61N 2005/0652 (2013.01); A61N 2005/0663 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0178 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
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1. A device to provide stimulation to a retina of an eye, comprising:
one or more image forming optics; and
one or more light sources coupled to the one or more image forming optics to generate and project one or more images on the retina outside a fovea in order to promote one or more of a change in an axial length or a choroidal thickness of the eye;
wherein the one or more images comprises a plurality of images and wherein the one or more image forming optics comprises a plurality of projection optics coupled to a plurality of light sources to project the plurality of images anterior to the retina and each of said plurality of images has a depth of focus of no more than 2.5 Diopters.