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Photokinetic ocular drug delivery methods and apparatus

  • US 8,948,863 B2
  • Filed: 10/12/2010
  • Issued: 02/03/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A device for photokinetic transscleral ocular drug delivery, the device comprising:

  • a generator that provides an oscillating electrical pulse in electrical communication with at least one light emitting diode (LED) that is mounted on a photokinetic patch adapted and dimensioned to be inserted under an eyelid and fit against an external ocular surface of an eye of a patient, the photokinetic patch including a drug layer, wherein the at least one LED receives the oscillating electrical pulse and responds by providing an incoherent light directed through the drug layer and towards an interior of the eye of the patient at a wavelength selected to induce a photokinetic transocular translocation of a drug loaded in the drug layer.

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