US Patent Issued to EYECOOL THERAPEUTICS on July 28 for "Methods of alleviating symptoms of ocular surface discomfort using medical ice slurry" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,908, issued on July 28, was assigned to EYECOOL THERAPEUTICS INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Methods of alleviating symptoms of ocular surface discomfort using medical ice slurry" was invented by James Anthony Stefater III (Boston), Tomasz Pawel Stryjewski (Somerville, Mass.) and Sameer Sabir (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method of alleviating symptoms of ocular surface discomfort, the method comprising: topically applying a cold slurry adjacent to a corneal limbus of an eye of a patient, wherein the cold slurry comprises water and a freezing point depressant, wherein the topical application of the ...