Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
71 patents granted to the 3 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to STAAR Surgical Company’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
71
71 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
2
Against 1 in 2024 and none in 2023
Applications published
20
1 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
3
its own name, a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
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Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name3 counted
STAAR Surgical Company its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent. 11 more under the same name are not counted (printed in CH, printed in LR)
8 publishedSTAAR Surgical Company its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
9 publishedStaar Japan, Inc. a subsidiary
JP, as the owner printed on each patent
3 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| May 13, 2025 | 12,295,829 | Ophthalmic implants for correcting vision with a tunable optic, and methods of manufacture and use | Medical technology | STAAR Surgical Company |
| Feb 25, 2025 | 12,232,952 | Ophthalmic implants with extended depth of field and enhanced distance visual acuity | Medical technology | STAAR Surgical Company |
| Oct 29, 2024 | 12,127,934 | Method of Providing Modified Monovision to a Subject with a First Lens and a Second Lens | Medical technology | STAAR Surgical Company |
| Aug 30, 2022 | 11,427,665 | Polymeric composition exhibiting nanogradient of refractive index | Medical technology | STAAR Surgical Company |
| Jan 5, 2021 | 10,881,504 | Ophthalmic implants with extended depth of field and enhanced distance visual acuity | Medical technology | STAAR Surgical Company |
| Sep 15, 2020 | 10,774,164 | Polymeric composition exhibiting nanogradient of refractive index | Medical technology | STAAR Surgical Company |
| Nov 26, 2019 | 10,485,655 | Ophthalmic implants with extended depth of field and enhanced distance visual acuity | Medical technology | STAAR Surgical Company |
| Nov 6, 2018 | 10,117,775 | Pre-loaded injector for use with intraocular lens | Medical technology | STAAR Surgical Company |
| May 2, 2017 | 9,636,216 | Injector cartridge with improved lubricity | Surface technology, coating | STAAR Surgical Company |
| Apr 5, 2016 | 9,301,833 | Pre-loaded injector for use with intraocular lens | Medical technology | STAAR Surgical Company |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Mar 6, 2025 | 2025/0073020 | OPHTHALMIC LENSES WITH FIRST AND SECOND PORTIONS | Medical technology | STAAR Surgical Company |
| Jan 11, 2024 | 2024/0008973 | OPHTHALMIC IMPLANTS WITH EXTENDED DEPTH OF FIELD AND ENHANCED DISTANCE VISUAL ACUITY | Medical technology | STAAR Surgical Company |
| May 4, 2023 | 2023/0140249 | OPHTHALMIC IMPLANTS FOR CORRECTING VISION WITH A TUNABLE OPTIC, AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE AND USE | Medical technology | STAAR Surgical Company · patent 12,295,829 granted from it |
| Nov 17, 2022 | 2022/0363795 | POLYMERIC COMPOSITION EXHIBITING NANOGRADIENT OF REFRACTIVE INDEX | Medical technology | STAAR Surgical Company |
| Nov 8, 2018 | 2018/0318064 | CONTROLLED AXIAL DISPLACEMENT POSTERIOR CHAMBER PHAKIC INTRAOCULAR LENS | Medical technology | STAAR Surgical Company |
| Sep 20, 2018 | 2018/0263814 | PRE-LOADED INJECTOR FOR USE WITH INTRAOCULAR LENS | Medical technology | STAAR Surgical Company · patent 10,117,775 granted from it |
| Sep 14, 2017 | 2017/0258577 | OPHTHALMIC IMPLANTS WITH EXTENDED DEPTH OF FIELD AND ENHANCED DISTANCE VISUAL ACUITY | Medical technology | STAAR Surgical Company · patent 10,881,504 granted from it |
| Dec 1, 2016 | 2016/0346076 | CONTROLLED AXIAL DISPLACEMENT POSTERIOR CHAMBER PHAKIC INTRAOCULAR LENS | Medical technology | STAAR Surgical Company |
| Jul 7, 2016 | 2016/0193081 | Pre-Loaded Injector For Use With Intraocular Lens | Medical technology | STAAR Surgical Company · patent 10,117,775 granted from it |
| Jul 7, 2016 | 2016/0193037 | OPHTHALMIC IMPLANTS WITH EXTENDED DEPTH OF FIELD AND ENHANCED DISTANCE VISUAL ACUITY | Medical technology | STAAR Surgical Company · patent 10,485,655 granted from it |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Medical technology 2.
A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.