US Patent Issued to Glaukos on July 1 for "System and method for delivering multiple ocular implants" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,288, issued on July 1, was assigned to Glaukos Corp. (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

"System and method for delivering multiple ocular implants" was invented by David Steven Haffner (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Henrick K. Gille (Oceanside, Calif.), Charles Raymond Kalina Jr. (Irvine, Calif.) and John Joseph Cogger (Santa Ana, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for delivering multiple ocular implants to reduce intraocular pressure are disclosed. The ocular implants can be implanted at multiple sites within a single human eye without requiring removal of the delivery apparatus from the eye. A system for delivering multiple ocu...