US 12,076,229 B2
Accommodating intraocular lens assemblies and accommodation measurement implant
Joshua Ben Nun, D.N. Vitkin (IL)
Assigned to ForSight Vision6, Inc., South San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by ForSight Vision6, Inc., Brisbane, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/166,680.
Application 16/372,746 is a division of application No. 14/621,305, filed on Feb. 12, 2015, abandoned.
Application 17/166,680 is a continuation of application No. 16/372,746, filed on Apr. 2, 2019, granted, now 10,912,643.
Application 14/621,305 is a continuation of application No. 12/906,598, filed on Oct. 18, 2010, granted, now 8,956,409, issued on Feb. 17, 2015.
Application 12/906,598 is a continuation of application No. 11/568,416, granted, now 7,842,087, issued on Nov. 30, 2010, previously published as PCT/IL2005/000456, filed on May 1, 2005.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/589,567, filed on Jul. 21, 2004.
Claims priority of application No. 161706 (IL), filed on Apr. 29, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2021/0259826 A1, Aug. 26, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61F 2/16 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/1635 (2013.01) [A61F 2/1613 (2013.01); A61F 2/1616 (2013.01); A61F 2/1648 (2013.01); A61F 2002/1683 (2013.01); A61F 2002/16902 (2015.04); A61F 2002/1699 (2015.04); A61F 2220/0016 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An accommodating intraocular lens (AIOL) comprising:
an optical element containing a liquid, the optical element comprising an anterior-facing surface configured to be resiliently deformed to increase diopter strength of the optical element upon application of a compressive force against the optical element, wherein upon implantation of the AIOL in an eye, a visual axis of the eye extends through a central region of the anterior-facing surface and the anterior-facing surface forms an external surface of the accommodating intraocular lens;
a reciprocating member operatively coupled to the optical element, the reciprocating member comprising a trailing end and an opposite leading end, wherein upon implantation of the AIOL in the eye, the reciprocating member is reversibly movable in response to accommodative eye movements such that the trailing end of the reciprocating member is configured to contact eye tissue driving shape change of the AIOL so that the leading end of the reciprocating member is urged against the optical element to resiliently deform the anterior-facing surface outward due to application of the compressive force against the optical element by the leading end of the reciprocating member, thereby causing the increase in diopter strength; and
a haptics system coupled to and extending outward from the optical element.