Patent ID: 9358102
Filing Date: 2016-06-07
CPC Classification: A61F

Claim Text:
1. A method for insertion of an intraocular lens into the eye of a patient, the method comprising: providing an intraocular lens assembly, said intraocular lens assembly including an intraocular lens with loops attached thererto and loop extensions removably attached to said loops of said intraocular lens; initially inserting into the eye of the patient said loop extensions of said intraocular lens assembly; pulling on said loop extensions through sclerectomies formed in the sclera of said eye of said patient; inserting said intraocular lens into said eye of said patient; positioning said intraocular lens in a desired position in said eye of said patient by pulling on said loop extensions through said sclerectomies; fixing said loops to said sclera of said eye of said patient at said sclerectomies; and detaching said loop extensions from said loops.