Patent ID: 11877924
Assignee: AMO GRONINGEN B.V.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A method of improving vision quality in a human eye at locations spaced away from the fovea, the human eye having an artificial intraocular lens disposed therein, the method comprising:
accessing an anterior chamber of the human eye;
advancing a lens shifter into the anterior chamber, the lens shifter comprising an intraocular lens surface contact member and a peripheral ocular tissue contact member;
placing a free end of the peripheral ocular tissue contact member in contact with peripheral ocular tissue of the anterior chamber at a first location along an anterior-posterior direction, the tissue contact member disposed in a direction posteriorly and radially inwardly toward the optical axis of the eye to the intraocular lens surface contact member to a second location along an anterior-posterior direction at which the tissue contact member is coupled with the intraocular lens surface contact member;
coupling the intraocular lens surface contact member with an anterior surface of the artificial intraocular lens; and
releasing the lens shifter in the anterior chamber such that the lens shifter reaches a rest state after displacing the principle plane of the artificial intraocular lens posteriorly by a distance d, whereby peripheral image quality of the eye is improved,
wherein the lens shifter comprises a piggyback lens, and
wherein the artificial intraocular lens is disposed in the lens capsule of the human eye.