US Patent Issued to GLAUKOS on April 22 for "Gonioscopic devices" (California, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,822, issued on April 22, was assigned to GLAUKOS Corp. (San Clemente, Calif.).

"Gonioscopic devices" was invented by Charles Raymond Kalina Jr. (Irvine, Calif.), Thomas W. Burns (Dana Point, Calif.), Chris Calcaterra (Coto De Caza, Calif.), Edward Collins (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), Timothy McCauley (Oceanside, Calif.), David S. Haffner (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Steven M. Henderson (Roswell, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gonioscopic attachment can attach to a gonioscope and can include atraumatic retention elements that are configured to engage an eye to retain the gonioscope relative to the eye. The gonioscopic attachment can b...