Second Sight Announces Successful Implantation and Activation of Wireless
  Visual Cortical Stimulator in First Human Subject
From: Medical Design Technology - 10/25/2016

Second Sight Medical Products, Inc., a developer, manufacturer, and marketer
of implantable visual prosthetics to restore functional vision to blind
patients, today announced the first successful implantation and activation of
a wireless visual cortical stimulator in a human subject, providing the
initial human proof of concept for the ongoing development of the Company’s
Orion I Visual Cortical Prosthesis (Orion I). In the UCLA study supported by
Second Sight, a 30 year old patient was implanted with a wireless
multichannel neurostimulation system on the visual cortex and was able to
perceive and localize individual phosphenes or spots of light with no
significant adverse side effects.

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