US Patent Issued to National University Hospital (Singapore), Advanced Ophthalmic Innovations on Dec. 16 for "Ocular drainage implant" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,222, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to National University Hospital (Singapore) Pte Ltd (Singapore) and Advanced Ophthalmic Innovations Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Ocular drainage implant" was invented by Paul Chew (Singapore), Victor Koh (Singapore) and Cherry Chooi Ling Khoo (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Conventional ways of reducing pressure in the eye have inherent drawbacks and one such way to reduce these drawbacks is to provide an ocular drainage implant including a pliable plate which is so sized and shaped as to enable it to be positioned on a sclera surface or a sub-scleral space of an eye comprising a first exteri...