US Patent Issued to THE EYE HOSPITAL OF WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY on June 24 for "Self-sealing trabeculectomy" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,934, issued on June 24, was assigned to THE EYE HOSPITAL OF WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY (Wenzhou, China).

"Self-sealing trabeculectomy" was invented by Guoxing Li (Wenzhou, China), Rongrong Le (Wenzhou, China), Yuanbo Liang (Wenzhou, China), Shaodan Zhang (Wenzhou, China), Yanqian Xie (Wenzhou, China) and Aiwu Fang (Wenzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-sealing trabeculectomy, which solves the problems in existing scleral flap suturing. The self-sealing trabeculectomy includes the following steps: S1: before a surgery, conducting disinfection, draping and eye speculum placement, and conducting local infiltration anesthe...