US 12,144,722 B2
Corneal implant
Edoardo Grosso, Moncalieri (IT); and Emiliano Lepore, Martignacco (IT)
Filed by Edoardo Grosso, Moncalieri (IT); and Emiliano Lepore, Martignacco (IT)
Filed on Oct. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/975,851.
Application 17/975,851 is a division of application No. 16/972,924, granted, now 11,510,775, previously published as PCT/IB2019/054540, filed on May 31, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 102018000006146 (IT), filed on Jun. 8, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0052227 A1, Feb. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. A61F 2/14 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/147 (2013.01) [A61F 2/142 (2013.01); A61F 2/15 (2015.04)] 1 Claim
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A corneal implant designed for correcting irregularities of the corneal curvature of a subject, the implant having a dome-shaped structural body sized and configured to impose a regular curvature to corneal portions in contact with the implant,
wherein the structural body comprises an outermost peripheral ring and an inner reticular structure defined inside the outermost peripheral ring, wherein the inner reticular structure comprises at least one first series of beams and at least one second series of beams intersecting each other, the beams of the first series and the beams of the second series having a respective first end and a respective second end,
the first and second series of beams defining a mesh having void portions, wherein a total area of the void portions within the mesh of the inner reticular structure is between 50% and 99.9% of the surface area of the inner reticular structure,
wherein the beams of both the first and second series have both ends connected to the outer peripheral ring,
wherein the structural body is devoid of inner circular openings coaxial with the outermost peripheral ring.