US Patent Issued to Shifamed Holdings on Oct. 21 for "Adjustable glaucoma treatment devices and associated systems and methods" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,046, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Shifamed Holdings LLC (Campbell, Calif.).

"Adjustable glaucoma treatment devices and associated systems and methods" was invented by Robert Chang (Belmont, Calif.), Tom Saul (Portland, Ore.), Claudio Argento (Felton, Calif.), Eric Schultz (Los Altos, Calif.), Katherine Sapozhnikov (Campbell, Calif.), Richard Lilly (San Jose, Calif.) and Michael Drews (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology is directed to implantable medical devices for draining fluid from a first body region to a second body region. Some embodiments of the present technology provide adjustable d...