US Patent Issued to Innovative Drive on Oct. 14 for "Mechanical hole punch for the reduction of intraocular pressure and methods of use" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,374, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Innovative Drive Corp. (Reno, Nev.).

"Mechanical hole punch for the reduction of intraocular pressure and methods of use" was invented by Luke W. Clauson (Reno, Nev.) and Matthew B. Newell (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device to treat an ocular condition having a rotary housing located within an outer housing rotationally fixed to a rotary spindle and rotationally movable relative to the outer housing; an elongate shaft projecting distally from the distal end region of the outer housing along a central longitudinal axis, at least a distal end region of the elongate shaft being si...