Injector apparatus and method for drug delivery

US9033911B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ForSight Vision4, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Eugene de Juan, Jr. · San Francisco, US
• Yair Alster · Menlo Park, US
• Kathleen Cogan Farinas · Menlo Park, US
• K. Angela Macfarlane · Menlo Park, US
• Cary J. Reich · Los Gatos, US
• Randolph E. Campbell · South San Francisco, US
• Darren Doud · Los Altos, US
• Signe Erickson · Menlo Park, US
• Mike Barrett · Menlo Park, US
• David Batten · Menlo Park, US
• Christina Skieller · Menlo Park, US
• Greg Stine · Longview, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 5, 2011
• Grant date: May 19, 2015
• Expiry date: Aug 22, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61M2039/0276
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Methods and apparatus provide a therapeutic fluid to devices implanted in the body, for example to containers of devices implanted in the eye of a patient. The methods and apparatus may comprise an injector to increase an amount of therapeutic agent injected into the device implanted in the eye, or a structure to receive the therapeutic fluid within the device implanted in the eye, or combinations thereof. The device implanted in the eye may comprise a reservoir chamber having a fluid with a density different than the therapeutic fluid, and the apparatus can be adapted to at least partially separate the implanted device fluid from therapeutic fluid within the reservoir chamber to increase and amount of therapeutic fluid placed in the reservoir chamber.