US Patent Issued to Avedro on July 7 for "Compounds and compositions for eye treatments" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,925, issued on July 7, was assigned to Avedro Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Compounds and compositions for eye treatments" was invented by Jason Hill (Auburndale, Mass.), Desmond Adler (Bedford, Mass.), Marc D. Friedman (Needham, Mass.), Pavel Kamaev (Lexington, Mass.) and Evan Sherr (Ashland, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure features chemical entities (e.g., a compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt and/or hydrate and/or prodrug of the compound) that that generates cross-linking in the cornea in response to exposure to an electromagnetic irradiation. This disclosure also features compositions containing the same ...