US Patent Issued to Verily Life Sciences on Feb. 17 for "Biofluid shunt valve with sheath and monitoring device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,375, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas).

"Biofluid shunt valve with sheath and monitoring device" was invented by Dimitri Azar (San Francisco) and Supriyo Sinha (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shunt valve for removing biofluid from an eye of a user, the valve including a tubular body defining an inlet and a plurality of outlets formed through a wall of the tubular body; a plunger accommodated within the tubular body and fluidically coupled to the inlet; wherein the plunger is movable relative to the plurality of outlets; and an energized material coupled to the plunger and the tubular...