Patent ID: 8197541
Filing Date: 2012-06-12
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. An accommodative lens implant, comprising: an implant body having at least one lens; a fluid depot; and an intermobile element having an annular shape and a radially outward surface dimensioned to be directly engaged by a ciliary muscle of an eye, the radially outward surface of the intermobile element is concavely shaped such that the radially outward surface of the intermobile element is able to straddle said ciliary muscle so as to extend from a first side of said ciliary muscle facing an iris of said eye to a second side of said ciliary muscle facing a retina of said eye, wherein a first side of said fluid depot is configured to be directly engaged by said intermobile element and a second side of said fluid depot opposite to the first side is configured to be directly engaged by said implant body, and said implant body, said fluid depot and said intermobile element are separate from one another, each of said implant body, said fluid depot and said intermobile element being sequentially and individually implantable in said eye.