US Patent Issued to Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne on March 31 for "Apparatus and methods for treating excess intraocular fluid" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,030, issued on March 31, was assigned to Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Apparatus and methods for treating excess intraocular fluid" was invented by Stephane Bigler (Leysin, Switzerland) and Nikolaos Stergiopulos (Preverenges, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ocular drainage system is provided for treating diseases that produce elevated intraocular pressures, such as glaucoma, wherein the system includes an implantable device and an external control unit, the implantable device includes a non-invasively adjustable valve featuring at least one deformable tube and a disk rotatably mount...