Patent ID: 11957621
Assignee: ALEYEGN TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 17:
18. A method for treating glaucoma of an eye, the method comprising:
delivering energy to a plurality of treatment locations of the eye, the plurality of treatment locations located at least 2 mm radially outward from a limbus and corresponding to an angle within a range from 30 degrees to 360 degrees around a sclera of the eye, wherein the energy delivered to the plurality of treatment locations opens an iridocorneal angle of the eye by an amount within a range from 0.5 degrees to 10 degrees;
wherein the eye comprises a human eye and the plurality of locations correspond to a surface area on the sclera, and wherein the surface area is within a range from 1 mm2 to 100 mm2 and wherein the surface area is located radially outward from the limbus on a sclera of the eye by at least 2.5 mm and anterior to a lens equator on the sclera of the human eye and wherein the iridocorneal angle opens in response to the plurality of treatment locations and wherein the plurality of treatment locations is located anterior to the lens equator by no more than 3 mm.