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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2009
Harish Makker, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Can HU, Irvine, CA (US);
Michael D. Lowery, Irvine, CA (US);
Abbott Medical Optics Inc., Santa Ana, CA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus, and methods of making and using apparatus, for inserting intraocular lenses (IOLs) are disclosed. The apparatus includes a hollow tube having an interior wall defining a hollow space through which an intraocular lens may be passed from the open space into an eye. A lubricity enhancing component is covalently bonded to the hollow tube at the interior wall in an amount effective to facilitate the passage of the intraocular lens through the hollow space. The lubricity enhancing component includes a substituent component effective to reduce hydrolysis of said lubricity enhancing component relative to an identical lubricity enhancing component without the substituent component.