US Patent Issued to Aquea Health on Oct. 14 for "Eye stents and delivery systems and methods" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,377, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Aquea Health Inc. (Hillsborough, Calif.).

"Eye stents and delivery systems and methods" was invented by Charles Warden (Hillsborough, Calif.) and Anand Doraiswamy (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for maintaining patency of a channel of an uveolymphatic region or a Schlemm's canal in a patient's eye may include a single elongated element configured for radial expansion of the channel of the uveolymphatic region or the Schlemm's canal when inserted into the channel, wherein the single elongated element is configured to follow an arc of a circumference of the channel, wherein the ar...