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VISX INC

Overview
  • Total Patents
    401
About

VISX INC has a total of 401 patent applications. Its first patent ever was published in 1986. It filed its patents most often in United States, WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) and Canada. Its main competitors in its focus markets medical technology, optics and machine tools are AMO DEV LLC, LENSAR INC and ZIEMER OPHTHALMIC SYSTEMS AG.

Patent filings per year

Chart showing VISX INCs patent filings per year from 1900 to 2020

Top inventors

# Name Total Patents
#1 Yee Kingman 67
#2 Clapham Terrance N 57
#3 Shimmick John K 51
#4 Munnerlyn Charles R 46
#5 Chernyak Dimitri 41
#6 Dai Guangming 34
#7 Caudle George 30
#8 Somani Seema 24
#9 Gross Erik 22
#10 Lemberg Vladimir 22

Latest patents

Publication Filing date Title
WO2008061034A1 Operator-controlled scanning laser procedure designed for large-area epithelium removal
WO2007102921A2 Non-invasive measurement of tear volume systems and methods
US2007058132A1 Calculating Zernike coefficients from Fourier coefficients
US2007002274A1 Presbyopia correction through negative high-order spherical aberration
US2006264917A1 Scleral lenses for custom optic evaluation and visual performance improvement
CA2555705A1 Volumetric point spread function for eye diagnosis and treatment
US2005195364A1 Transformation methods of wavefront maps from one vertex distance to another
US2006028732A1 Lenslet array for beam homogenization
US2005254006A1 Compound modulation transfer function for laser surgery and other optical applications
US2005099602A1 Sterile hand held refractive surgery slit lamp illumination system
US2005024587A1 Slit lamp for ophthalmic use
US2005012898A1 Iterative fourier reconstruction for laser surgery and other optical applications
US2005261752A1 Binocular optical treatment for presbyopia
US2005024584A1 Systems and methods for eye aberration and image sensor orientation
MXPA05010791A Wavefront calibration analyzer and methods.
MXPA05006000A Presbyopia correction using patient data.
US2005094262A1 Microscope magnification sensor
US2005025208A1 Passive gas flow management and filtration device for use in an excimer or transverse discharge laser
US2004257530A1 Wavefront reconstruction using fourier transformation and direct integration
US2004021874A1 Integrated scanning and ocular tomography system and method