US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on March 25 for "Incised Descemet's membrane and methods of making and using" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,365, issued on March 25, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Incised Descemet's membrane and methods of making and using" was invented by Joshua Honghan Hou (Minneapolis), Peter Bedard (St. Paul, Minn.), Jeffrey Joseph Justin (St. Paul, Minn.), Mark Spencer Hansen (Long Lake, Minn.), Martin de la Presa (Roseville, Minn.) and David Ronald Hardten (Excelsior, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes a Descemet's membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK) graft prepared using paired incisions; compositions including the incised DMEK graft; an injector including the incised DMEK gra...