US Patent Issued to Balance Ophthalmics on April 22 for "Apparatus and methods to adjust ocular blood flow" (South Dakota, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,825, issued on April 22, was assigned to Balance Ophthalmics Inc. (Sioux Falls, S.D.).

"Apparatus and methods to adjust ocular blood flow" was invented by John Berdahl (Sioux Falls, S.D.), George Tsai (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Hal Walbrink (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), Vance Michael Thompson (Sioux Falls, S.D.) and Enrico Brambilla (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus to treat, inhibit, or prevent an eye condition in a patient can include a cover, sized and shaped to fit over an eye of a patient to define a cavity between the cover and an anterior surface of the eye when the cover is located over the patient eye. The ...