Patent ID: 8137399
Filing Date: 2012-03-20
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. An intraocular device, comprising: a lens body sized to be received in the human eye, the lens body comprising an anterior lens having an optical axis, a posterior lens, and a chamber between the anterior lens and the posterior lens; a prism situated in the chamber between the anterior and posterior lenses, the prism comprising a prism anterior face and a prism posterior face, at least one of the prism anterior face and the prism posterior face being oriented at an oblique angle relative to the optical axis for shifting incident light received from the anterior lens by an angular deviation with respect to the incident light so that light departing the posterior lens is converged to a focal point not coincident with the optical axis of the anterior lens, the prism having a first index of refraction (n a shift amplifier having a second index of refraction (n wherein a first ratio of the greater of the first index of refraction (n