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US 10,905,546 B1Granted
Controlled unfolding of intraocular lenses
AssigneeVerily Life Sciences LLC
InventorsStein Kuiper, Brooke Basinger
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Abstract
A method for controlled unfolding of an intraocular lens (IOL) includes inserting a folded IOL into an eye and heating a shape memory alloy (SMA) ring included with the IOL to a temperature that is at least a transition temperature of the SMA ring. The transition temperature is above a body temperature. Heating the SMA ring causes the SMA ring to unfold the IOL.
Claims24
A method for the controlled unfolding of an intraocular lens (IOL), the method comprising:
- inserting a folded IOL into an eye, wherein the IOL includes a shape memory alloy (SMA) ring having a transition temperature above a body temperature;
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- heating the SMA ring to a temperature that is at least to the transition temperature, wherein the heating causes the SMA ring to unfold the IOL.
A method of unfolding an intraocular lens (IOL), the method comprising:
- implanting a folded IOL into an eye, wherein the IOL includes a support structure and a shape memory alloy (SMA) ring included in the support structure, the SMA ring having a transition temperature above body temperature;
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- inductively heating the SMA ring to a temperature that is at least to the transition temperature, wherein the heating causes the SMA ring to unfold the IOL.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.