US Patent Issued to The Regents Of The University Of California on Jan. 27 for "Surgical treatment for glaucoma" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,258, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The Regents Of The University Of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Surgical treatment for glaucoma" was invented by Tibor Juhasz (Oakland, Calif.), James Jester (Oakland, Calif.) and Eric Mikula (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glaucoma treatment apparatus including an imaging device capable of imaging the anterior segment of the eye, a treatment laser, an algorithm programmed to determine a location and a cross sectional area of a treatment based on a customized anatomy of the anterior segment of the eye including the trabecular meshwork (TM), the Schlemm's Canal (SC) and collect...