US 12,440,104 B2
Solitary wave-based trans-lid tonometer
Piervincenzo Rizzo, Pittsburgh, PA (US); Amir Nasrollahi, Pittsburgh, PA (US); Samuel Dickerson, Pittsburgh, PA (US); and Ritesh Misra, Pittsburgh, PA (US)
Assigned to University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, Pittsburgh, PA (US)
Filed by University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, Pittsburgh, PA (US)
Filed on Apr. 15, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/635,982.
Application 18/635,982 is a continuation of application No. 16/987,020, filed on Aug. 6, 2020, granted, now 11,957,413.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/883,296, filed on Aug. 6, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0252041 A1, Aug. 1, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 3/16 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 3/16 (2013.01) [A61B 2562/0223 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
21. A computer-readable medium including stored instructions which, when executed by one or more computing devices coupled to a stress wave tonometer, wherein the tonometer includes a particle array configured to propagate an incident stress wave to an eye, a housing configured to support the particle array, and a sensor coupled to the particle array and configured to detect a return stress wave propagating along the particle array from the eye, wherein the particle array is configured to removably contact an eyelid of the eye, cause the one or more computing devices to produce an intraocular pressure estimate for the eye by comparing stored stress wave data describing a tonometer detection event of the eye including return stress wave data to a stored relationship between (i) incident and return stress waves and (ii) intraocular pressure.