ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,049, issued on March 17, was assigned to HALLUX INC. (Laguna Hills, Calif.).

"Onychomycosis treatment methods" was invented by Robert L. Orr (San Clemente, Calif.), Christopher Ronald Agee (Lake Forest, Calif.) and Thomas Mark Tremblay (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for treating onychomycosis uses a treatment protocol that atraumatically and subungually administers an antifungal agent dissolved in a liquid pharmaceutical composition to a subungual space to so achieve a minimum inhibitory concentration of the antifungal agent with respect to a dermatophyte in the subungual space. The treatment protocol typical...