US Patent Issued to THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF KOREA INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, WONKWANG UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR INDUSTRY-ACADEMY COOPERATION on April 7 for "Aqueous humor drainage device with adjustable tube diameter" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,186, issued on April 7, was assigned to THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF KOREA INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea) and WONKWANG UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR INDUSTRY-ACADEMY COOPERATION (Iksan-si, South Korea).

"Aqueous humor drainage device with adjustable tube diameter" was invented by Kyoung In Jung (Seoul, South Korea), Seung Jae Lee (Iksan-si, South Korea), Hun Jin Jeong (Iksan-si, South Korea) and Nae Un Kang (Iksan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is an aqueous humor drainage device with an adjustable tube diameter that is inserted into an eyeball to drain aqueous humor discharged from the e...