US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Sept. 16 for "Reducing elevated intraocular pressure via a stimulation electrode assembly" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,073, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Reducing elevated intraocular pressure via a stimulation electrode assembly" was invented by Pedro P. Irazoqui (West Lafayette, Ind.), Gabriel Simon (West Lafayette, Ind.), Gabriel O. Albors (Indianapolis), Jack Williams (Lafayette, Ind.) and Quan Yuan (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved stimulus coil for use in wireless stimulation of biological tissue (e.g., nerves, muscle tissue, etc.) and, in one exemplary implementation, to glaucoma therapy based on the wireless administration of energy to the eye of a mamma...