US 11,696,853 B2
Intraocular implant device method
Manjinder Saini, Germantown, TN (US)
Filed by Manjinder Saini, Germantown, TN (US)
Filed on Apr. 14, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/848,650.
Application 16/848,650 is a continuation of application No. 15/812,294, filed on Nov. 14, 2017, granted, now 10,617,567.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/517,894, filed on Jun. 10, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0345554 A1, Nov. 5, 2020
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61F 9/08 (2006.01); A61F 2/16 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 9/08 (2013.01) [A61F 2/1624 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0002 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of providing artificial vision to a user, comprising:
implanting an intraocular implant device into a lens chamber of a user, wherein the intraocular implant device comprises:
an intraocular implant body;
a photoelectric sensor disposed in the intraocular implant body; and
a projector operable to receive power from the photoelectric sensor; and
a receiver operable to wirelessly receive a digital input signal;
sending a wireless input signal to the projector from an external transmitter, wherein the wireless input signal contains image data; and
emitting photons from the projector in a pattern representative of the image data;
providing a light-emitting, scleral contact lens on the eye opposite the intraocular implant device;
providing an external light source on the contact lens positioned to emit light towards the photoelectric sensor;
receiving the light in the photoelectric sensor;
converting the light into electrical energy;
powering the intraocular implant device with the electrical energy; and
emitting specific wavelengths of light optimized for use by the photoelectric sensor.