Patent ID: 8330082

Claim:
A contact lens warming apparatus adapted to warm a contact lens stored in a removably inserted lens container, the apparatus comprising; a controller; a heatable cavity shaped to be conformal to a corresponding contact surface of the inserted lens container conformal contact surface facilitating the rapid repeatable warming of the contact lens; and a heating element; wherein the controller is adapted to direct the heating element to warm the inserted lens container, thereby warming the contact lens in the lens container in order to reduce discomfort otherwise felt by a wearer of the contact lens when inserting the unwarmed contact lens into their eye; said contact lens warming apparatus having a plurality of heatable cavities adapted to receive a corresponding plurality of lens containers; said contact lens warming apparatus further comprising a temperature sensor, wherein the controller is adapted to direct the heating element responsive to a signal from the temperature sensor to thereby warm the contact lens to within a specified temperature range; and wherein the specified temperature range is 34° C.+/−2° C.