Patent ID: 7022749

Claim:
A method of producing ophthalmic devices from polymeric compositions, said method comprising: casting one or more of said polymeric compositions in a form of a rod; lathing or machining said rod into disks; and lathing or machining said disks into ophthalmic devices; wherein said polymeric compositions are produced through a polymerization of one or more aromatic-based siloxane macromonomers having a formula of wherein the R groups are the same or different aromatic-based substituents; each R group comprises an aromatic group having a linking group that covalently attaches the aromatic group to a silicon atom; R 1 is an aromatic-based substituent or an alkyl; x is a non-negative integer; and y and u are natural numbers; and wherein an attachment of the aromatic group to the silicon atom results from a hydrosilylation of an allylic functional group on the aromatic group.