ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,371, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).
"Ocular implant and delivery system" was invented by Wendy Blanda (Irvine, Calif.) and Rhett Schiffman (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ocular implant including a drug releasing element and having an inlet portion and a Schlemm's canal portion distal to the inlet portion, the inlet portion being disposed at a proximal end of the implant and sized and configured to be placed within an anterior chamber of a human eye, the Schlemm's canal portion being arranged and configured to be disposed within Schlemm's canal of the eye when the inlet portio...