US Patent Issued to W. L. Gore & Associates on Feb. 10 for "Fluid drainage devices, systems, and methods" (Delaware, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,262, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to W. L. Gore & Associates Inc. (Newark, Del.).

"Fluid drainage devices, systems, and methods" was invented by Jeffrey C. Towler (Wilmington, Del.), Peter J. Roeber (Oxford, Pa.) and Kevin M. Savory (West Grove, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Glaucoma shunts for draining fluid from an eye to surrounding tissue and being implantable within eye tissue, the shunts include a shunt body formed from microporous materials arranged to form a reservoir within the shunt body, and a conduit having a proximal end in fluid communication with the reservoir and an opposing distal end, the distal end being in...