ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,240, issued on April 7.
"Artificial vitreous humor for the investigation of drugs and drug formulations" was invented by Ulrike Altenburger (Lorrach, Germany), Sulabh Pravinchandra Patel (Basel, Switzerland), Gregoire Schwach (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Pankaj Shende (Maharashtra, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an artificial vitreous humor composition comprising a phosphate buffer, wherein the phosphate buffer has a pH value in the range from 7.0 to 7.7, particularly from 7.1 to 7.6, more particularly from 7.2 to 7.5. The invention further relates to a method of production of an artificial vitreous hum...