US Patent Issued to The Board Regents of The University of Texas System, THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERAN AFFAIRS on June 23 for "Eye shunt system and methods" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,263, issued on June 23, was assigned to The Board Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) and THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERAN AFFAIRS (Washinton, D.C.).

"Eye shunt system and methods" was invented by Karanjit S. Kooner (Plano, Texas), Michael A. Mong (Grapevine, Texas), Ghadeer Al-Humimat (Dallas), Jacob A. Awkal (Plano, Texas), Hebah G. Abdallah (Carrollton, Texas), Nguyen L. Le (Richardson, Texas), Jamasp Azarnoosh (Dallas), Peter Dirk Jan Reyntjens (Richardson, Texas) and Jeremy L. Warren (El Paso, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shunt operable to be implanted on an...