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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2018
Microsurgical Technology, Inc., Redmond, WA (US);
George Baerveldt, Monarch Beach, CA (US);
John T. Sorensen, Lake Elsinore, CA (US);
Michael Mittelstein, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Soheila Mirhashemi, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
MICROSURGICAL TECHNOLOGY, INC., Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A surgical device, system and method for forming opening in the trabecular meshwork of eyes to facilitate drainage of aqueous humor and resultant lowering of intraocular pressure are provided. The device comprises a shaft and a distal member or foot on a distal end of the shaft. The distal member or foot may have a forward tip, a right edge, a left edge and a transversely concave depression, cavity or space between the right and left edges. The distal member is insertable into Schlemm's canal of an eye and thereafter advanceable through Schlemm's canal such that trabecular meshwork tissue will be cut by the right and left edges.