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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2016
Refocus Group, Inc., Dallas, TX (US);
Harry R. A. Jacobson, Nashville, TN (US);
Jack C. Griffis, III, Decatur, GA (US);
Mark A. Cox, Dallas, TX (US);
Douglas C. Williamson, Coppell, TX (US);
Gene W. Zdenek, Northridge, CA (US);
Peter J. Richardson, Buckinghamshire, GB;
Michael K. Smolek, Pearl River, LA (US);
Barrie D. Soloway, Long Beach, NY (US);
Rex O. Bare, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Andrew J. Scherer, Trabuco Canyon, CA (US);
Timothy J. Payne, Santa Ana, CA (US);
REFOCUS GROUP, INC., Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A scleral prosthesis includes an elongated body configured to be implanted into scleral tissue of an eye. The elongated body includes (i) opposing first and second free ends and (ii) multiple first portions that form the first end of the body and part of a remainder of the body between the first and second ends. The first and second ends are wider than the remainder of the body. The first portions are separated by empty space such that the first portions meet at a point between the first and second ends and are not connected to each other between that point and the first end. The first end projects beyond one or more sides of the remainder of the body and angles back towards the second end. The second end projects beyond the one or more sides of the remainder of the body and angles back towards the first end.