Creative Group of Patents Granted

Leon Goldstein and Alan Dorf, two inventors from Illinois, have invented and successfully patented a custom "prescription mirror" for the sight challenged baby boomer generation, and for those who need to put on or to take off glasses to see in a mirror. The custom mirror is created by mounting a ground, custom prescription lens that is simply snapped onto a small pocket mirror, about the size of a woman's powder compact. The mirror then reflects the corrected, prescription image that the user would see if they had their glasses on (or off). The custom lens can also be snapped on to a magnifying mirror for enlarged viewing needs.

Harry Linden, of Santa Barbara, California, has invented and been granted a patent for a heart rate monitor that is mounted on a pair of eyeglasses and which feeds the reading into the bottom of one of the lenses of the wearer's eyeglasses. The monitor detects the wearer's pulse rate in the bridge of the nose through a microprocessor, battery, and a sensor electrode that fits on the bridge of the eyeglasses. A very small image display is mounted on one of the wearer's eyeglass lenses, and a small fiber optic line connects the analog output from the sensor to the digital image display. The eyeglass wearer can then see his or her heart rate in his line of vision.