Patent ID: 9568748
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: A61B,B33Y,G02C

Claim:
1. A method of 3D printing eyeglasses comprising the steps of: (a) measuring, based on a photograph or video of a person, biometric data of a head of said patient, including at least one of a distance between said patient's pupils, frontal curvature of patient's skull measured from temple to temple, distance from a front of said patient's temples to a back of said patient's ear, and dimensions and shape of said patient's eyes and bridge of the nose; (b) receiving a selection of an eyeglass frame from a plurality of eyeglass frames exhibited to a user, wherein said plurality of eyeglass frames exhibited to said user includes at least two said eyeglass frames having a different one of the following: a) thickness between a top of said frame and a lens opening, b) length of left and right arms, c) different bridges for a nose, d) a different lens opening width or height, and e) color; (c) printing said selection of said eyeglass frame layer by layer with a three-dimensional printer, after first modifying a shape of at least one portion of said selection of said eyeglass frame, using at least one of a) said patient biometric data, b) a color of at least a part of said selection of said eyeglass frame.