US Patent Issued to Azura Ophthalmics on Jan. 20 for "Manufacturing of selenium disulfide compositions" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,817, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Azura Ophthalmics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Manufacturing of selenium disulfide compositions" was invented by Hila Epstein-Barash (Shoham, Israel), Shimon Nahum (Petach-Tikva, Israel), Shimon Amselem (Rehovot, Israel) and Yair Alster (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods for the manufacture of compositions useful for the treatment of meibomian gland dysfunction. Said methods utilize rheological properties of petrolatum induced by a high shear mixing feature of the method. The products of the methods of manufacture described herein are stable anhydrous com...