ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,079, issued on March 25, was assigned to MINGCHE BIOTECHNOLOGY Co. LTD (Suzhou, China).

"Intraocular pressure sensor" was invented by Dongni Ren (Suzhou, China), Fule Wang (Shanghai), Kemin Wang (Shanghai), Ruixue Yin (Shanghai), Heming Wei (Shanghai) and Hongbo Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intraocular pressure (IOP) includes a transmission film component, which is in direct contact with intraocular aqueous humor and configured to sense pressure fluctuations in the intraocular aqueous humor; a reflective film component set on an inner side of the transmission film component; and an adhesion layer component set o...