Patent ID: 7762662

Claim:
A device, comprising: a contact lens made of a contact lens material to fit into an eye; and a colored opaque ring pattern fused into a surface of the contact lens so that the colored opaque ring pattern is embedded in the contact lens material at the surface of the contact lens by forming a bond between an ink material of the colored opaque ring pattern and the contact lens material at the surface of the contact lens and an area of the surface of the contact lens where the colored opaque ring pattern is located is smooth, wherein the colored opaque ring pattern is positioned in the area of the contact lens surface to expose a central portion of the contact lens and to form a ring around the peripheral portion of the contact lens, the colored opaque ring pattern being smaller in diameter than the contact lens to leave a space on the contact lens between an outer edge of the opaque ring pattern and an outer edge of the contact lens; wherein the colored opaque ring pattern on a peripheral or limbal portion of the contact lens is bonded into the lens material at the surface to create a flexing zone that drapes to an individual contour of a sclera of the eye; wherein the colored opaque ring pattern comprises an inner edge that comprises a pattern of features extending towards the center of the contact lens with each feature decreasing in area as the feature extends towards the center of the contact lens; and wherein the colored opaque ring pattern comprises patterns of color that fade out as the patterns of color scatter in from the peripheral or limbal portion of the lens towards the center of the contact lens.