US Patent Issued to Shifamed Holdings on Nov. 18 for "Adjustable flow glaucoma shunts having non-linearly arranged flow control elements, and associated systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,098, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Shifamed Holdings LLC (Campbell, Calif.).

"Adjustable flow glaucoma shunts having non-linearly arranged flow control elements, and associated systems and methods" was invented by Robert Chang (Belmont, Calif.), Claudio Argento (Felton, Calif.), Katherine Sapozhnikov (Campbell, Calif.), Tom Saul (Moss Beach, Calif.) and Richard Lilly (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology is directed to adjustable shunts for treating glaucoma. In particular, some embodiments provide shunts having a plurality of individually actuatable flow control elements that can control the fl...