For Immediate Release – e-Vision Smart Optics Inc.
Tony Van Heugten, CTO of e-Vision Smart Optics, Inc., inducted in the 2024 Florida Inventors Hall of Fame
December 6 2024
Tampa Florida, Sarasota Florida, USA
Anthony “Tony” Van Heugten, the Chief Technology Officer of e-Vision Smart Optics, Inc., became a 2024 Inductee in the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame. Mr. Van Heugten is now on the exclusive list of 77 inductees to the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame with colleagues collectively holding over 5,200 patents. He earned his recognition as an inventor who holds over 61 U.S. Patents to his name. As CTO for e-Vision Smart Optics, his talents have added to the company’s list of over 345 e-Vision Smart Optics patents.
He joins an impressive list of globally recognized inventors
Mr. Van Heugten was inducted in the Annual Florida Inventors Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on Friday, October 25, 2024 in Tampa, Florida.
The Florida Inventors Hall of Fame includes globally recognized names like Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone and many other inventors that have made positive impacts in our lives.
About Tony Van Heugten
Tony Van Heugten is the Chief Technology Officer of e-Vision and a principle inventor of its liquid crystal tunable lens technology. Prior to joining e-Vision in 2007, Mr. Van Heugten, co-founded WaveTec Vision Systems, Inc. (“WaveTec”) in 2000 serving as Chief Technology Officer, co-inventing the intra-operative wave front sensor that improves visual outcomes in eye surgery. In 2014, WaveTec was sold to Alcon*. Mr. Van Heugten has worked with many leaders in the ophthalmic community developing numerous successful products such as an instrument that creates stitch-less incisions for cataract surgery in one pass and an instrument to remove an implanted IOL through a 3mm incision.
Mr. Van Heugten has also managed other numerous successful technical projects both inside and outside of ophthalmology including the development of new products in interventional cardiology (MedClose), vascular access (Johnson & Johnson) and laser-vision-correction lasers (Summit Technology). He was a co-developer of e-Vision’s electro-optic phoropter for performing vision examinations.
e-Vision Smart Optics – Company Overview
eVision is headquartered in Sarasota, Florida and a pioneer in electronic lens modulation with more than 18 years of experience designing and fabricating optics that control and shape light with no moving parts. “We are extremely proud of Mr. Van Heugten’s deserved induction into Florida Inventors Hall of Fame, an organization that recognizes Florida inventors whose achievements have significantly advanced the quality of life for all Americans.” Joel Zychick, CEO, of eVision Smart Optics, Inc. With ownership or control of over 440 issued or pending worldwide patents, e-Vision has significant protection for its intellectual property. This extensive patent portfolio is classified as follows:
e-Vision Intellectual Property
- Optical Designs for Electronic Lenses: e-Vision’s patents cover its designs for electronic lenses and optics, including diffractive and pixelated diffractive optics, refractive optics, combination diffractive/refractive optics and adjustable fluidic optics.
- Electronics: Patents cover activating (focusing), powering and charging electronic optics remotely, wirelessly and/or anatomically with the electronics either imbedded in the optics or located outside the optics. Other patents cover memory and data transmission.
- Specific Applications for Electronic Lenses: The patent portfolio covers the application of Smart Focus Optics for eyecare (contact lenses, IOLs and spectacles), mobile media (optics for cameras, web cams, the “Internet of Things”), ophthalmic diagnostic devices (the electronic phoropter, for example) and more.
- Flexible Optics: e-Vision’s patents also cover the use of flexible (foldable) electronic lenses, optics and electronics for its eyecare applications.
- Support: e-Vision also has numerous additional patents on the processes and methods required to fabricate electronic lenses and optics.
- Wearables: The Internet of Things: Patents covering electronic wearable frames that encapsulate mobile media components including audio, video, microphones and wireless communication and the electronics (power and control) to drive such components.
e-Vision Smart Optics, Inc. is a privately held Delaware-based Corporation with its development facility and administrative offices located in Sarasota, Florida. The company was established in 1999 and its initial focus was technology licensing and transfer activities for lens-based and electronic wearable applications. In 2010, e-Vision created its own development platform to create tunable liquid crystal-based optics and wearable electronic frames. e-Vision believes that its technology will have a transformative influence on the complex lens systems required to bring what can be imagined to reality.
Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality, AR, VR and MR
Today there is a rush to develop products that interface with powerful computing advancements in Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality. e-Vision Smart Optics patents and development activities interface the sight and sound that is critical for the success of AR, VR and MR. e-Vision Smart Optics holds many other patents that are foundational to the development of reality-based products in both spectacle lens eyewear and the Electronic Contact Lens (ECL) contact technology.
About the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame
By encouraging discovery, the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame supports a culture of creativity that fuels innovation, drives economic growth, and encourages investment in Florida. The Florida Inventors Hall of Fame is a state-wide initiative dedicated to honoring and celebrating Florida inventors whose achievements have significantly advanced the quality of life for all Americans. Florida consistently ranks among the top 10 states for most patents granted. The Florida Inventors Hall of Fame recognizes these inventors, inspires the next generation of innovators, and works to bring attention to Florida, as a state where research, innovation and discovery thrive, and where great inventors have lived and worked.
*e-Vision has no affiliation with Alcon, the largest eye care devices company in the world.
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For Immediate Release – e-Vision Smart Optics Inc. launches new Developer Program for its Variable Optics and Electronic Wearable Frame Technology
April 1 2024
Sarasota, Florida USA
e-Vision Smart Optics Inc., announces a new Developer Program for its variable optics and electronic wearable frame technology. With an ever-expanding IP portfolio in some of the fastest growing fields in vision-based consumer technology, eVision owns and controls over 425 worldwide patents on variable optics and electronic wearable frames. “With our growing vision-based technologies and patent portfolio, our team believes this is the right time for us to grow interest in e-Vision’s technologies by offering a new Developer Program,” said Tony Van-Heuton e-Vision Smart Optics Inc. Chief Technology Officer.
The Development Program established by e-Vision Smart Optics Inc. would offer qualified developers a royalty free license to its global patent portfolio and a royalty free sublicense to the patents covered by its continuing licenses of the patents developed by Mitsui Chemical Corp, which were recently acquired by Zeiss Vision Care*, for development purposes only. Participants in the program would then be fast-tracked for the Company’s licensing/sublicensing programs for commercial products. As a complement to e-Vision’s own development activities in the area of variable optics, electronic wearable frame and AR/MR technologies, e-Vision continues to offer robust and comprehensive license/sublicensing opportunities worldwide. “We see new products entering the market every day that could benefit from being a part of our licensing/sublicensing programs,” Joel Zychick, CEO.
For more information please contact www.evisionoptics.com/contact/ or call 941-351-4580
For Immediate Release – eVision Smart Optics Inc. patent portfolio grows wrapping up 2023
Jan 10 2024
Sarasota, Florida USA
As per Justia.com and The United States Trademark and Patent Office® USPTO, e-Vision Smart Optics, Inc. announces patents recently granted to e-Vision Smart Optics, Inc.
Patents Assigned to e-Vision Smart Optics, Inc.
Patent number: 11852914
Abstract: A see-through near eye display, which can be modulated in such a manner to synchronize with electronic enabled micro-lenses of a switchable micro-lens array, wherein when pixels of the near eye display are lit the micro-lenses of the micro-lens array are present; thus, a virtual image can be formed and seen by the eye of a user. When the see-through near eye display is not lit, the micro-lenses are not present, thus permitting a real image to be present.
Type: Grant
Filed: August 17, 2021
Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
Assignee: e-Vision Smart Optics, Inc.
Patent number: 11822155
Abstract: Eyewear is provided including a frame, and a camera connected with the frame, in which the camera is configured to be controlled by a remote controller. The camera may be configured to capture video and/or a photo. The eyewear may include data storage, and the camera may be connected to the data storage. A wrist watch may be configured to act both as a time piece and a controller of the camera. The eyewear may also include a heads up display and/or a video file player. The eyewear may also include an electro-active lens.
Type: Grant
Filed: August 19, 2022
Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
Assignee: e-Vision Smart Optics, Inc.
Patent number: 11822154
Abstract: An electro-active lens is presented which utilizes a surface relief structures and an electro-active material, with a change in refractive index facilitating the change in optical properties. A molded structure and a liquid crystal are used to form a diffractive lens. In addition to the classical approach of utilizing diffractive optics and multiple Fresnel zones to form a lens, an additional structure is placed between Fresnel zones in order to improve the diffraction efficiency across the visible spectrum and reduce chromatic aberration.
Type: Grant
Filed: December 17, 2021
Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
Assignee: e-Vision Smart Optics, Inc.
Patent number: 11793625
Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, device, manufacture, circuit, composition of matter, and/or user interface adapted for and/or resulting from, and/or a method and/or machine-readable medium comprising machine-implementable instructions for, activities that can comprise and/or relate to, via a device implanted in a mammal, sensing a ciliary muscle movement and/or force and/or converting the ciliary muscle movement and/or force to a signal and/or a predetermined form of power.
Type: Grant
Filed: June 25, 2020
Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
Assignee: e-Vision Smart Optics, Inc.
Press Release – Patent Infringement Lawsuits
Statement on Patent Infringement Lawsuits filed by King & Spalding, LLP on behalf of e-Vision Smart Optics Inc. and E-Vision Optics, LLC against Seiko Epson Corporation, Epson America, Inc., Lenovo Group, LTD, Lenovo Holding Co., Inc., Lenovo (United States), Inc.,Luxottica Group S.P.A., Luxottica U.S. Holdings Corp., and Luxottica of America Inc.for patent infringement.
November 1, 2023
Sarasota FL, Atlanta GA, USA: E-Vision Smart Optics Inc. and its affiliates (the e-Vision Group) reports that it has initiated separate law suits in Federal District Court against Seiko Epson Corporation, Epson America Inc., Lenovo Group, LTD, Lenovo Holding Co., Inc., Lenovo (United States), Inc., Luxottica Group S.P.A., Luxottica U.S. Holdings Corp. and Luxottica of America, Inc, alleging that certain products marketed by each organization infringe a number of patents owned by the e-Vision Group. “The e-Vision Group has devoted significant energies and resources to the development of its technology and IP for which it has filed, owns or controls over 440 patents world-wide. Although the existence of this patent portfolio is well known in the industry, in our view certain products in the market today infringe on our patents. As these matters are now subject to litigation, both myself and our representatives will not be able to comment further,” said
Joel Zychick, CEO, e-Vision Smart Optics Inc.
About the e-Vision Group
The research and development projects of the e-Vision Group focus on vision-based optical technologies and electronic wearable frames that are used for a variety of applications. Its optical technologies cover electronic lenses and optics that utilize diffractive, refractive, pixelated and hybrid diffractive/refractive optical designs created by e-Vision’s labs that utilize either embedded or remote/wireless power and control. Its wearable frame undertakings include the incorporation of mobile media, displays and other electronics into and on wearable frames. As a pioneer in electronic lens modulation, e-Vision offers more than 20 years of experience designing and fabricating optics that control and shape light with no moving parts. With e-Vision’s patent portfolio encompassing hundreds of patents issued or pending worldwide, e-Vision has significant intellectual property memorializing its extensive development efforts in these areas over the past 20 years.
E-Vision is a privately held Delaware-based Corporation with its development facility and administrative offices located in Sarasota, Florida. The parent company was established in 1999 and its initial focus was technology licensing and transfer activities for lens-based applications. In 2010, E-Vision expanded its development platform to address all conventional and/or fluidic/liquid lenses that have electronics associated with them. E-Vision believes that its technology will have a transformative influence on the complex lens systems required to bring what can be imagined to reality.
About King & Spalding
King & Spalding LLP is an American international corporate law firm that is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with offices located in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. It has over 1,200 lawyers in 23 offices globally.
Forward-looking Statements
This statement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements may include, but may not be limited to, direct or indirect statements concerning: E-Vision Smart Optics Inc. protection of its rights to the intellectual property and its exposure to intellectual property challenges and litigation. Any forward-looking statements in this statement are based on E-Vision Smart Optics Inc. current expectations and beliefs of future events, and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially and adversely from those set forth in or implied by such forward-looking statements.
Contact Information
E-Vision Smart Optics, Inc. 1144 Tallevast Rd, Suites 113-115 Sarasota, FL 34243
Mailing Address: 8437 Tuttle Ave., Suite 319 Sarasota, FL 34243 Phone +1-941-351-4580 www.evisionoptics.com
Web Contact Form: www.evisionoptics.com/contact/
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 2020 (Sarasota Florida, USA,)
e-Vision Smart Optics is named Top Ophthalmic Solution Providers, cover and story published in November MEDTECH OUTLOOK magazine, medicaltechoutlook.com
Breaking the Vergence Accommodation Conflict Barrier
Computer-based interaction with patients and doctors is the new reality of modern medicine due in part to COVID-19. The promise of Virtual and Mixed Reality as a more immersive tool for medical care has been elusive because of a significant design constraint. This issue is the focus conflict caused by Virtual and Mixed Reality in the human brain. This is known as the Vergence-Accommodation Conflict (VAC) caused by the confusion our mind faces as it processes a virtual reality image. The brain naturally knows to refocus the eyes for different visual distances. As a person uses virtual reality, the brain gets confused by an artificial sharp visual image at a distance which would typically require the brain to refocus the eyes. As the eyes are not required to refocus, this results in nausea, fatigue, headaches, and discomfort.
Today, there is a solution to the problem—electronic liquid crystal lenses that help reduce or resolve VAC. This technology has made quantum leaps from ultra-small devices developed for electronic contact lenses to 30mm lens diameter and scaling up to 50mm. Shifting focus is also necessary for next-generation mixed reality devices that use virtual and augmented reality technology to create an environment where physical and virtual objects can exist and interact in real-time. These devices need electronic shifting focus to ensure sharp images in the user’s field of view. “Our technologies, including LC (Liquid Crystal) electronic technology, can help overcome some of the greatest challenges of projecting visuals in a virtual environment,” says Joel Zychick, the CEO of eVision Smart Optics. He notes the same issue is resolved in transparent eyewear used with virtual reality using eVision patented HUD technology. Unlike Virtual Reality non-transparent goggles, the user needs to focus on data projected on the transparent lens in the user’s field of view without compromising distance vision.
A working prototype of the advanced solution on the eVision website’s homepage, a video taken through a 30mm lens shows liquid crystal electronic focus shifting across different focus zones. Seamless, accurate focus, as displayed in the video, is key to success when projecting images in the viewer’s field of vision. The same technology, available for license in a smaller form factor, is the eVision Electronic Contact Lens (ECL). Virtual reality will allow doctors to diagnose injuries in a 3D environment. Surgeons will have access to scans and data in their field of vision for critical procedures. We all understand the need for enhanced tools to treat patients in a more immersive environment without the risk of transmitted disease.
We often take for granted the role of vision as one of the most powerful tools in medicine. Advances in vision technologies, including microelectronics, liquid crystal focusing, HUD, and in-frame sound input, will make our vision an even more potent medicine tool.
(See article below)
Press Release February 2020
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 2020 (Sarasota Florida, USA, Atlanta, GA USA)
eVision Smart Optics selects the world-class international law firm King & Spalding to represent patent licensing and protection for eVision patented technologies
eVision Smart Optics selects the world-class international law firm King & Spalding to represent patent licensing and protection for eVision patented technologies.
As many of the next generation advancements in vision from Virtual Reality to the Electronic Contact Lens (ECL) rely on innovation covered by eVision patents, eVision choose the award-winning firm of King & Spalding to negotiate licensing and safeguard its valuable patents as new products enter the marketplace.
About e-Vision Smart Optics
e-Vision Smart Optics focuses on vision-based technologies that serve the market in many applications. A commercialized example of eVision technology is electronically focusing eyewear by Mitsui Chemical. TouchFocus™ is a spectacle lens that utilizes eVision’s electro-active lenses and electronic wearable frames to allow the user to switch from distance to near focus on demand.
Other key patents available for licensing include:
Augmented Reality (AR)
Virtual Reality (VR)
Mixed Reality (MR)
Extended Reality (XR)
Electronic Contact Lens (ECL)
Electronic Eyewear with tinting and audio/video capabilities
eVision Optics has a patent portfolio with over 525 Patents and Patent Applications owned or controlled world-wide. eVision Optics operates a 6000 sq ft fully equipped development facility in Sarasota, Florida.
About King & Spalding
King & Spalding is an American international corporate law firm headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia that helps leading companies advance complex business interests in more than 160 countries. King & Spalding founded in the late 1800s is now a Global 50, award winning law firm today. Working across a highly integrated platform of more than 1,100 lawyers in 21 offices globally, King & Spalding delivers tailored commercial solutions through world-class offerings and an uncompromising approach to quality and service. With offices in North America, Europe and Asia, all primary markets for eVision Optics Patent licensing, King & Spalding was the smart choice.
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Press Release February 2020
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February 2020 (Sarasota Florida, USA,)
e-Vision Smart Optics is proud to announce the appointment of Dr. John Hunkeler to the e-Vision Board of Directors
Dr. John Hunkeler was appointed to the e-Vision Optics Board of Directors and is a highly recognized leader in ophthalmology, providing a vast, real-world knowledge base in the world of vision care. With the rapid expansion of reality products, such as VR (Virtual Reality), AR (Augmented Reality), MR (Mixed Reality), XR (Extended Reality) and products like the Electronic Contact Lens (ECL), e-Vision will leverage Dr. Hunkeler’s experience.
Dr. John Hunkeler is a nationally recognized leader in ophthalmology. He is the founder and medical director of the Hunkeler Eye Institute, which specializes in cataract lens implant surgery and laser refractive surgery. Dr. Hunkeler is a board-certified ophthalmologist and past president of the American Society for Cataract and Refractive Surgery. He maintained a private practice in the metropolitan Kansas City area since 1973 until retirement in 2019.
Dr. Hunkeler helped educate ophthalmologists throughout the world in the technique of small incision cataract surgery. In 1977, Dr. John Hunkeler was the founding director of the Kansas City Eye Bank and served as its medical director for the next 10 years. He was the first surgeon to use the YAG laser in Kansas City in 1984 and the excimer laser in 1988. In October 1996, he was recognized by Ophthalmology Times as one of the top 100 ophthalmologists in the United States. He also served as a medical monitor for the laser photorefractive keratectomy study for nearsightedness.
As former chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Kansas School of Medicine (1994–2000), Dr. Hunkeler oversaw the training of ophthalmology residents at the school. Dr. Hunkeler earned his medical degree from the University of Kansas and continued his medical training with an internship at the Los Angeles County Hospital and subsequent ophthalmology residency at the University of Kansas. Also, he has held leadership roles in many ophthalmic organizations and served on the boards of the Outpatient Ophthalmic Surgery Society, the American Board of Eye Surgery, and the Eye Bank Association of America.
“The world of vision technologies including electronic lenses both large and small and the reality suite of patents are all rapidly becoming main stream products and we are excited to have access to the real world experience of Dr. Hunkeler,” Joel Zychick, CEO, eVision™ Optics.
“We live in an exciting age, with the rapid advancement of vision technologies that will benefit people today and for generations to come. I look forward to helping e-Vision advance this technology,” Dr. John Hunkeler, e-Vision Optics, board member.
To learn more about e-Vision Optics please visit our website, www.evisionoptics.com
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Press Release Nov 2019
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NOV 2019 ( Sarasota Florida, USA)
e-Vision Smart Optics a recognized leader in Ophthalmic Solutions addresses the vast growing categories of reality products.
With the rapid expansion of reality products and the growing list of terminology, eVision™ Optics has developed a comprehensive web overview to provide a greater understanding of the technology and terms in use today. The new categories are broken down into VR (Virtual Reality), AR (Augmented Reality), MR (Mixed Reality) and, more generally, XR (Extended Reality) to cover the entire range of reality uses aligned with vision.
In light of releases in publications like Forbes (See, 5 Important Augmented And Virtual Reality Trends For 2019 Everyone Should Read)* touting the transformative effect the different reality based offerings will have in the near future. And the recent announcement by The Motley Fool (Sep 24, 2019)** that Facebook is not only acquiring technology companies in the sector, Facebook is reportedly working on AR smart glasses. eVision Optics goal is to provide a detailed overview of the differences in the technologies and terminology for companies interested in licensing eVision Optics patents for electroactive optics and wearable electronic frames.
“The most fundamental component of any reality-based product is vision, and our patents cover in-eye, over the eye, and wearable devices that make the technology possible and we offer licensing for patent protection in this growing category,” Joel Zychick, CEO, eVision™ Optics.
New to the website
The new website’s overview reality page covers the key areas and terminology associated with each including:
Augmented Reality (AR)
Virtual Reality (VR)
Mixed Reality (MR)
Extended Reality (XR)
Reality based vision products are growing at a rapid pace in a wide and varied marketplace. Examples cross a wide spectrum from consumer products to industrial applications and will soon be found in the frontiers of outer space with the developments eVision has created. eVision™ Optics patents can be the foundation for the possibilities of instant visualization of data to benefit people in real-world environments. Personal use is in rapid development as powerful microcomputers and cloud based connectivity deliver real-time data for immersive applications as per the Facebook announcement.
Extended Reality is enabling viewing in a simulated environment in real time merged with the physical environment, one example, Autodesk*** utilizing Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Mixed Reality (MR) providing the ability to visualize a home rendering while touring a property site or the visualization of an interior design in an unfinished building to speed up and stream-line the selection processes.
Mixed Reality (MR) for Military and law enforcement will benefit with real-time downloadable content that can protect and save lives, utilizing instantly updated data and graphics. They say “a picture is worth a thousand words” and when you consider the multitude of applications, realistic 3d modeling and data delivery served in a visual format, soon reality-based visual products will be as common as the cell phone technology we utilize every day.
“Technology trends are converging in reality-based vision products and for interaction they all are dependent on the vision interface. I believe that in the past, the terms, “Virtual Reality” and “Augmented Reality” covered most of the offerings. , Today, so many new applications are being developed that people are struggling to name them. Regardless of what you call them, the most important element of the process of commercializing reality products is securing the intellectual property protection that eVision can offer,” Tony Van Heugten, CTO, eVision™ Optics.
To learn more about the virtual reality terms, definitions, current uses or to experience other e-Vision technologies please visit our website, www.evisionoptics.com
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* https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2019/01/14/5-important-augmented-and-virtual-reality-trends-for-2019-everyone-should-read/#3cdd3b5222e7
**https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/09/24/facebook-makes-another-billion-dollar-bet-on-arvr.aspx
*** https://www.autodesk.com/solutions/virtual-reality
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 2019 (Sarasota Florida, USA )
e-Vision Optics to present White Paper – Developments in Electroactive Lens Technology for Vision Correction (3:30 PM – 3:50 PM PST) at Display Week 2019 hosted by the Society for Information Display (SID) San Jose Convention Center, USA , Thursday, May 16 2019
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Press Release April 2019
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 2019 (Sarasota Florida, USA – Oakland California, USA)
e-Vision Smart Optics recognized in the Top 10 Ophthalmic Solution Providers in MED-TECH OUTLOOK Magazine.
e-Vision Smart Optics, a recognized global leader in the development and advancement of patented technologies that enhance vision was recognized for its achievements in MED-TECH OUTLOOK magazine. A publication that provides insight into cutting edge technologies in the medical field.
To experience other e-Vision technologies please visit our website, www.evisionoptics.com
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Press Release March 2019
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March 2019 (Sarasota Florida, USA – Tokyo, Japan)
MITSUI CHEMICALS TOUCHFOCUS™ EYEWEAR EXPANDS ITS SALES TO ALL OF JAPAN AFTER A SUCCESSFUL PRODUCT LAUNCH IN TOYKO, UTILIZING eVISION PATENTED TECHNOLOGIES.
TouchFocus™ Next Generation Eyewear expands its market share, including offering an expanded product base that now includes titanium frames into all of Japan with enhanced features backed by eVision Optics patented technology.
Mitsui Chemicals TouchFocus™ eyewear is now expanding its retail base moving into retail locations to cover most of Japan. “With designs featuring the “flowing line” design created in collaboration with world-renowned design firm IDEO, the innovation and design are opening up the marketplace utilizing the eVision Optics intellectual property license”, Joel D. Zychick, President & CEO e-Vision.
Award Winning Design
The announcement of expansion follows TouchFocus™ Next Generation Eyewear being awarded the 2018 Good Design Award (Organized by the Japan Institute of Design Promotion).
Good Design Award Evaluator’s Comment (Best 100*)
TouchFocus™ was awarded a high evaluation for several reasons. It fundamentally improves the usability of progressive lens by harnessing the power of electricity. Furthermore, all necessary components fit into the frame without interference to the wearer – weighing roughly the same as conventional eyewear. By doing so, the newness of the technology was not overly emphasized. The fact that the frame lineup includes a wide variety of shapes, sizes and materials was also evaluated highly. Overall, the product feels natural, and future wearable devices would do well to take note of the design put forth here. We are looking forward to see how the product is further developed in the future.
TouchFocus™ technology to be available in Titanium Frames
Mitsui Chemicals also announced they will expand the lineup of TouchFocus™ next generation eyewear by introducing a new series of titanium frames. Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. partnered with one of Japan’s leading metal eyewear frame manufacturers. The soon to be offered frames will be available in different frame colors to include, blue, green, brown, black, and gunmetal. Titanium, with its excellent durability and outstanding aesthetic properties, allows for a thin and visually attractive titanium frame for TouchFocus™. The frames include a one-of-a-kind flat cable, an ultra-thin insulation piece and other parts, specifically designed for the titanium series of TouchFocus™ eyewear that utilizes eVision’s patented electronic wearable frames.
To experience this and other e-Vision technologies please visit our website, www.evisionoptics.com
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*https://www.g-mark.org/award/describe/47002
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Press Release October 2018
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 2018 (Sarasota Florida, USA – London, England)
The world is taking notice of advanced electronic eyewear technology featured in a news report by the BBC on TouchFocus™ eyewear by Mitsui Chemicals, Inc., utilizing licensed eVision™ LCD lens technology.Breaking news: the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) London, England took notice of the new release of TouchFocus™ electronic LCD lens eyewear with licensed technology by eVision™ Optics. The news release featured a story on the new product and how it works.
In a recent news report, a BBC reporter introduced the eVision™ technology and demonstrated how the new hi-tech glasses offer an alternative to bifocals utilizing LCD lenses that change focus with a touch. TouchFocus™ eyewear is available in retail stores in Toyko, Japan and is owned by parent company Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. The new eyewear with built in electronic technology helps overcome the vision issues caused by presbyopia. Presbyopia is the loss of near focus as we age and according to a global report by Market Scope (2012), the number of presbyopes is expected to soar to 2.1 billion by 2020.
A video produced by the BBC shows the stylish eyewear in use. The reporter demonstrates how the eyewear electronically changes orientation of liquid crystals to shift the focus of the lenses to near reading like bifocals with a touch on the side of the frames. The reporter returns the eyewear to normal prescription viewing with another touch on the frames.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-45908565/hi-tech-glasses-offer-alternative-to-bifocals
Credit: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
“The new Touchfocus™ eyewear is as fashionable as they are functional by utilizing our licensed technology. We are excited to see highly respected global news organizations like the BBC highlight our patented LCD technology,” Joel Zychick, CEO, eVision™ Optics.
On sale in Japan and with licensing agreements available around the globe, electronic LCD eyewear technology is now capturing the imagination of consumers as eVision™ continues to drive technological advancements in the world of vision.
To experience other e-Vision technologies please visit our website, www.evisionoptics.com
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Press Release September 2018
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September 2018 (Sarasota Florida, USA, Vienna Austria)
E-VISION™ TO FOLLOW RELEASE OF WORLDS FIRST ELECTRONICALLY FOCUSING LENS DEMONSTRATION DEVICE WITH A WHITE PAPER AT THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF PRESBYOPIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2018 VIENNA, AUSTRIA. THE PAPER WILL BE TITLED “ELECTRONICALLY ADJUSTABLE, LIQUID CRYSTAL BASED ACCOMMODATING GLASSES, CONTACT LENSES AND IOL’s”
Due to the increased interest in our new vision technologies, eVision™ developed videos to provide a greater understanding of the science behind the patented devices. The new videos and soon to be released white paper will help provide insight into the advances made by eVision™
Companies interested in eVision™ Optics new technology can now view a comprehensive set of videos on the website at www.evisionoptics.com. They can contact the company to view the technology in person with the recent release of a mobile demonstration device that electronically controls different zones of focus in real time.
On the website, www.evisionoptics.com has four new videos on the technologies.
1) The homepage features actual footage videotaped through the lens showing the activation of different field of focus electronically.
2) The new website “Video Page” offers three new videos on eVision™ technologies
– Video 1 – e-Vision Technology – Capsule View
– Video 2 – e-Vision Technology – ECL and IOL’s
– Video 3 – e-Vision Technology – Smart Glasses, Augmented Reality and More…
These new videos come in advance of the release of a new white paper and speaking engagement by Tony Van Heugten titled “Electronically adjustable, liquid crystal based accommodating glasses, contact lenses and IOLs”.
“This year has been filled with advances for eVision™ Optics including the latest commercial release of the new Touch Focus eyewear by Mitsui. The completion of the electronic lens demonstration device and our new videos will provide a deeper understanding of all of our licensable technologies”, Joel Zychick, CEO, eVision™ Optics.
eVision™ works with companies to adapt eVision™ science to their products and embraces a business model allowing companies to participate in the final stages. “By working hand in hand with eVision™ in the final stages of development, licensees have a say in the final outcome”, Joel Zychick, CEO, eVision™ Optics.
Licensing benefits include:
– Reduced development costs
– Oversight of the final product features
– Product features designed to match the companies long term business goals
Making science easy to understand
“With the ability to focus over different focal lengths, many new products and opportunities open up in light of our advancements. With the new videos and the soon to be released white paper, our goal is to make it easier for people to understand our science and how our IP can ensure their products are relevant in the future”, Tony Van Heugten, CTO, eVision™ Optics.
New to the website
The new website’s home page shows an electronic lens as it focuses from distance to near intermediate, intermediate and close up or reading distance. The different focal lengths switch electronically and are controlled by a remote device. The lens default is distance viewing as a safety measure. Other technologies and facility videos are also available for viewing in the video section of the website explaining many of the benefits and future uses for the technologies offered.
To experience other e-Vision technologies please visit our website, www.evisionoptics.com
For licensing or joint venture information please contact,
Contact: [email protected]
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Press Release May 2018
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 2018 (Sarasota Florida, USA)
E-VISION™ HAS STREAMLINED THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LICENSING PROCESS FOR COMPANIES SEEKING TO DELIVER NEW PRODUCTS UTILIZING E-VISION™PATENTED TECHNOLOGIES IN THE VISION MARKETPLACE
Today companies in the vision industry are on the hunt for “what’s next” as consumers continue the early adopter trend in selecting products with enhanced features.
The rapid advances in technology have opened the door to new products that enhance our lives. Traditional vision care companies are now faced with the same technological challenges of being first to market or face the very real possibility of being left behind. Speeding up internal R&D or securing advanced technological partners in the vision industry has always been a challenge. Companies must create products that are new and offer unique, futuristic features to keep up with consumer demand. “To help companies speed up the process of IP acquisition and make it easier to license technologies like the ones we have created, e-Vision is taking a two pronged approach to licensing our Intellectual Property”, Joel D. Zychick, President & CEO e-Vision.
Streamlining the licensing process
The first step, we continue to build a robust internal licensing department, with a focus on traditional vision applications (spectacles, contact lenses, IOLs and ophthalmic medical devices). This is a logical path for our company, as e-Vision has access to many brands in the industries through its Board of Directors and shareholders. We realized the process for licensing had to be much easier to implement across the vast spectrum of patented technologies we can license to our partners. Today the due diligence, information transfer and licensing process is much easier with our new internal licensing department.
Increasing access to e-Vision™ technologies
The second deliverable was to set up an easy to access technology licensing business so companies can quickly review, understand and license our patented science. The rapidly expanding Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) market is new to the vision industry. The participants and brands that are jumping into that market are related more to the consumer electronics market. We found the number of companies working on or marketing these products in the vision care market is growing at a rapid pace. In the AR/VR market, e-Vision is in discussion with well known licensing companies to introduce
e-Vision’s wearable frame technology and Intellectual Property. e-Vision continues to communicate with all companies in need of licensing opportunities in this arena.
To experience other e-Vision technologies please visit our website, www.evisionoptics.com
For licensing or joint venture information please contact,
Contact: [email protected]
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Press Release April 2018
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 2018 (Sarasota Florida, USA)
E-VISION™ ANNOUNCES THE WORLDS FIRST DEMONSTRATION DEVICE FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL ELECTRONIC CONTACT LENSES. A DEVICE THAT UTILIZES e-VISION PATENTED TECHNOLOGY THAT COULD SOON BE FOUND IN ELECTRONIC CONTACT LENSES AROUND THE WORLD.
Companies will be able to see how the Electronic Contact Lenses (ECL) now in development will work as the device electronically shifts focus on demand utilizing e-Vision Smart Optics patented technology available for licensing now.
E-Vision™ Smart Optics is proud to announce the successful completion of an electronic contact lens platform device to demonstrate the ability to electronically change diopters in real time to prospective licensing partners. “People are amazed as they see the lens in action, realizing how this technology can impact our industry by offering electronic diopter control. Our first in category electronically controlled features must be seen to believe”, Joel D. Zychick, President & CEO e-Vision. The Electronic Contact Lenses will offer impressive features including onboard power/control, remote setting and activation, dimensions that fit within current contact lens size requirements, and up to four diopters of control, or more, that can be switched in 50 milliseconds.
The Science behind the patented Electronic Contact Lenses
Sandwiched between three thin layers of polymer are two layers of liquid crystal, 8 microns thick. In the unpowered mode, the liquid crystal molecules are in their relaxed state and provide no optical power. When a small voltage is applied, the liquid crystal molecules begin to change their optical properties resulting in focus changes in the lens. The current device can be switched to one, two or three diopters of optical power but many other combinations can be designed into it, including higher and more distinct optical powers. The commercial product will have its base optical power molded into the polymer, while the liquid crystal changes the optical power as required. For example, if someone was near sighted, the contact lens would be molded to provide the user with best corrected distance vision, then be able to switch as needed to pre-programmed near focus, close intermediate focus, intermediate focus and distance. All power, electronics, optics and communication components will be inside of the contact lens. The power source will provide energy for a full day’s use and be recharged wirelessly when removed from the user’s eye overnight.
The prototype
The Electronic Contact Lens unit was created to demonstrate how the final product will perform. A small camera allows the focus changes to be seen on a monitor, plus the lens can be removed from the camera and hand-held to look through and see with your own eyes the focus changes. “The device makes an impressive statement when you consider the scale required for the electronics and the increased performance Electronic Contact Lenses will provide”, Tony Van Heugten – Chief Technology Officer of e-Vision. Helbling, known around the world as a leader in electronic advancements in integrated technologies, is a valued partner behind this new technology.
The global contact lens market is anticipated to reach USD 17.72 billion by 2025, according to a report by Grand View Research, Inc. (Aug 2017). An extension of contact use from 1-5 years in the existing base of contact users, could increase the contact lens profits in the industry by billions.
E-Vision Smart Optics, Inc., headquartered and with laboratories in Sarasota Florida, develops technologies related to the eye care industry.
To experience other e-Vision technologies please visit our website, www.evisionoptics.com
For additional information or high-resolution images,
Contact: [email protected]
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Press Release Nov 2017
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NOV 2017 (Tokyo, Japan — Sarasota Florida, USA)
NEW LIQUID CRYSTAL LENS TECHNOLOGY EYEWEAR UTILIZING e-VISION PATENTED TECHNOLOGY TO LAUNCH SPRING 2018
Electronic Liquid Crystal Eyewear to Become a Reality in 2018 Mitsui Chemicals Inc., Tokyo Japan, with business interests in Japan, Europe, China, Southeast Asia and the USA, has announced the upcoming 2018 launch of eyeglasses that switch electronically between near and distance viewing utilizing e-Vision patented eyewear technology.
Utilizing “TouchFocus,” self activating touch sensor, in-frame battery and electronic control, this new product switches from near to distance in an instant. The rechargeable battery originally designed for about 10 hours of continuous use has proven to work up to two weeks as tested by internal employees. This battery combined with embedded electronic technology allows the user to control their eyewear through out the day.
“We are excited to see this new product move into launch, as this is another example of our patented technology providing advanced performance based on our science”, Joel D. Zychick, President & CEO e-Vision.
E-Vision Smart Optics, Inc., headquartered and with laboratories in Sarasota Florida, develops technologies related to the eye care industry. The Mitsui Chemicals, new “TouchFocus” glasses, targeting the presbyoptic market utilizes patents from the e-Vision portfolio of 375 patents issued and/or pending and the 150 patents owned by third parties, that e-Vision controls. E-Vision continues to be on the cutting edge of technology, another notable patent use is the current development of tunable optics e-Vision is developing for NASA.
Existing corrective lens market – Global market expected to grow from $7.4 billion in 2012 to $12.5 billion by 2020(1)
To find out more about this and other new technologies go to www.evisionoptics.com
Contact: [email protected]
(1) Grand View Research – Contact Lenses Market Analysis and Segment Forecasts to 2020
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Press Release Feb 2016
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NOV 2017 (Galveston, TX— Sarasota Florida, USA)
E-Vision Presents Scientific Poster at Annual Meeting for NASA- and NSBRI-Funded Investigators
Anthony Van Heugten, James Allen and Harry Milton today presented a scientific poster at the 2016 NASA Human Research Program Investigators’ Workshop, the annual meeting for NASA- and NSBRI-funded investigators. The poster describes the development program for e-Vision’s Electronic Focusing Eyeglasses to address loss of vision in astronauts during long-term exposure to microgravity on space flights.
Applying E-vision’s platform technology, Smart Focus Optics™, these Electronic Focusing Eyeglasses will feature an almost infinite number of prescription settings. The wearer will have the ability to instantly change far, near and middle-vision settings, which will be customized to the individual’s own needs. These eyeglasses have the potential to provide astronauts with an immediate solution to visual changes that occur in space and may be useful to aid in an astronaut’s visual accommodation on earth once the space tour has been completed.
E-Vision is developing Electronic Focusing Eyeglasses for space travel under a grant from NSBRI-NASA. The theme of this year’s workshop is “Frontiers in Human Space Exploration Research.” The workshop’s goal is to provide an informal, collegial atmosphere for cross-disciplinary interaction.
Poster Below
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Press Release Nov 2015
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NOV 2015 (LAS VEGAS, NV, — Sarasota Florida, USA)
E-Vision Accelerates Development Program for First Fully Tunable Electronic Contact lens
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