ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,160, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to RAICO International LLC (Westmont, Ill.), Innovative Glaucoma Consulting LLC (Dallas) and EyeInnovate LLC (Dallas).
"Methods for treating glaucoma" was invented by Ronald L. Fellman (Dallas), Davinder S. Grover (Dallas), Sebastian S. Grover (Dallas) and Ravi Nallakrishnan (Willowbrook, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating glaucoma in an eye includes obtaining a surgical instrument having a cutting means and severing/cleaving an anterior attachment of a portion of trabecular meshwork of the eye proximate to Schwalbe's line with the cutting means while leaving the ciliary musc...