Patent ID: 8337552

Claim:
An intraocular lens adapted for deployment within a lens capsule, wherein the improvement comprises: at least part of a lens surface constituting a cell inducing region in which are directly formed a multitude of microgrooves; the microgrooves taking a form of minute linear grooves and lands of depth dimension between 0.01 and 1.0 μm and width dimension between 0.1 and 2.0 μm extending with prescribed length in a circumferential direction on the lens surface; and the minute linear grooves and lands being formed with a chained pattern connected in the circumferential direction of the lens surface, and a plurality of the minute linear grooves and lands being formed with a juxtaposed arrangement in a direction orthogonal to the circumferential direction of the lens surface so that the minute linear grooves and lands are formed without intervening spaces throughout the entire cell inducing region and impart visible light transmittance of 60% or above to the cell inducing region.