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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2018
Applicant:
Verily Life Sciences Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Stein Kuiper, Pacifica, CA (US);
Brooke Basinger, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Verily Life Sciences LLC, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/1662 (2013.01); A61F 2002/1681 (2013.01); A61F 2210/0038 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0001 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for controlled unfolding of an intraocular lens (IOL) includes inserting a folded IOL into an eye and heating a shape memory alloy (SMA) ring included with the IOL to a temperature that is at least a transition temperature of the SMA ring. The transition temperature is above a body temperature. Heating the SMA ring causes the SMA ring to unfold the IOL.