Patent ID: 8440217
Filing Date: 2013-05-14
Classification: A61F,B29D,G02B

Abstract:
1. A contact lens product, comprising a soft disposable contact lens, a film that is external to the lens and is adhered to the lens, and carriers which carry at least one drug, said carriers comprising a plurality of first carriers which carry a first drug of the at least one drug, said lens having a mechanical and optical structure formed by a core polymer comprised by the lens, said contact lens product configured to have each drug of the at least one drug released from the carriers continuously into an eye of a mammal while the contact lens product is adhered to the eye of the mammal during a continuous period of time, said at least one drug configured to treat or prevent at least one adverse condition of the eye of the mammal, said film comprising the plurality of first carriers and adhesively coupling the first carriers to the lens, said first carriers being totally external to the lens, wherein a totality of adhesive layers in the film consists of a single adhesive layer, wherein a totality of adhesive materials in the single adhesive layer consists of a single adhesive material that facilitates an adsorption of the first carriers to the lens, wherein the lens comprises a silicone hydrogel, and wherein the single adhesive material is covalently bonded to the silicone hydrogel within the lens.