ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,486, issued on June 30, was assigned to Glaukos Corp. (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).
"Bioresorbable ocular drug delivery device" was invented by Harold Alexander Heitzmann (Irvine, Calif.), David Steven Haffner (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Kenneth Martin Curry (Oceanside, Calif.) and Thomas W. Burns (Dana Point, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are implantable intraocular drug delivery devices structured to provide targeted and/or controlled release of a drug to a desired intraocular target tissue, and methods of implanting and methods of using such devices for the treatment of ocular diseases and disorders. In certain embo...