The eyes have it for inventive opthalmologist

In a corner office on the second floor of Dr. Alexander Eaton’s Retina Health Center in Fort Myers is a laboratory, but not the kind you might expect.

It’s a lab that has produced 13 U.S. and 22 foreign patents held by Eaton and colleagues, as well as their latest invention, XactDrop. He shares patents with Gabriel Gordon, Guangjun Gao, Ruixue Liu and Brian Bradley. XactDrop is an eye drop applicator device designed to help patients more accurately deliver eye drops. The invention is also a continuation of Eaton's ongoing mission to find a better way for people to dispense eye medication. Along the way, Eaton is learning some key business lessons, including how to match projected revenue with real expenses and coming out on the profit side.