US 12,226,308 B2
Method for controlling placement of intraocular implants
Charles Raymond Kalina, Jr., Irvine, CA (US)
Assigned to Glaukos Corporation, Aliso Viejo, CA (US)
Filed by Glaukos Corporation, San Clemente, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 12, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/444,960.
Application 17/444,960 is a division of application No. 16/146,786, filed on Sep. 28, 2018, granted, now 11,116,625.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/564,972, filed on Sep. 28, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0369447 A1, Dec. 2, 2021
Int. Cl. A61M 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/026 (2006.01); A61B 5/0295 (2006.01); A61F 2/16 (2006.01); A61F 9/00 (2006.01); A61M 60/31 (2021.01); A61M 60/35 (2021.01); A61M 60/405 (2021.01); A61B 3/117 (2006.01); A61F 9/007 (2006.01); A61F 9/008 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/1664 (2013.01) [A61B 5/0261 (2013.01); A61B 5/0295 (2013.01); A61F 9/0008 (2013.01); A61M 1/80 (2021.05); A61M 60/31 (2021.01); A61M 60/35 (2021.01); A61M 60/405 (2021.01); A61B 3/117 (2013.01); A61F 2009/0052 (2013.01); A61F 9/00781 (2013.01); A61F 2009/00872 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0067 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of positioning intraocular implants at or near collector ducts of Schlemm's canal of an eye, the method comprising:
positioning a handheld peristaltic rotor device on a corneal surface of an eye, the handheld peristaltic rotor device comprising a rotor having a plurality of compression elements;
rotating the rotor such that the plurality of compression elements create a peristaltic movement of blood from one or more occluded episcleral veins to Schlemm's canal,
identifying a location of at least one collector duct of the eye based on the refluxed blood within Schlemm's canal;
delivering an implant through an incision in the eye; and
placing an implant within the eye such that the implant is located at or near the identified location of the at least one collector duct.