EYES Profile
Second Sight Medical Products, Inc (EYES) is a medical technology company that develops, manufactures, and markets implantable visual prosthetics that are intended to create an artificial form of useful vision for blind individuals.
The company's flagship product is the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System, which is designed to provide electrical stimulation of the retina to induce visual perception in blind individuals. This system includes a tiny camera, mounted on a pair of glasses, which captures images and sends them to a small computer worn by the patient. The computer processes the images and transmits them wirelessly to an implanted electrode array, which stimulates the remaining functional retinal cells to produce visual perception.
In addition to the Argus II system, Second Sight is also developing a next-generation product, the Orion Visual Cortical Prosthesis System, which is designed to provide visual perception to individuals with cortical blindness.
The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Sylmar, California.
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