US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Meditec on June 23 for "Stent implant for treating glaucoma by means of intraocular fluid drainage from the anterior chamber" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,264, issued on June 23, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).

"Stent implant for treating glaucoma by means of intraocular fluid drainage from the anterior chamber" was invented by Martin Hacker (Jena, Germany) and Martin Kuehner (Bad Klosterlausnitz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stent implant for treating glaucoma by intraocular fluid drainage from the anterior chamber, for example into the suprachoroidal space. The stent implant is designed to change in shape after being inserted into the eye, during which change the width and/or thickness or the flow cross-section is increased by for example 20%, in an...