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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2020
Forsight Vision4, Inc., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Eugene de Juan, Jr., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Yair Alster, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Steven M. Chamow, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Kathleen Cogan Farinas, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Hanson S. Gifford, III, South San Francisco, CA (US);
K. Angela Macfarlane, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Cary J. Reich, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael Barrett, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Randolph E. Campbell, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert George, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Douglas Sutton, South San Francisco, CA (US);
ForSight Vision4, Inc., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A therapeutic device to release a therapeutic agent comprises a porous structure coupled to a container comprising a reservoir. The reservoir comprises a volume sized to release therapeutic amounts of the therapeutic agent for an extended time when coupled to the porous structure and implanted in the patient. The porous structure may comprise a first side coupled to the reservoir and a second side to couple to the patient to release the therapeutic agent. A plurality of interconnecting channels can extend from the first side to the second side so as to connect a first a plurality of openings on the first side with a second plurality of openings on the second side.