US Patent Issued to Kinki University, NOF on May 26 for "Therapeutic agent for short tear breakup time-type dry eye and eye drops containing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,310, issued on May 26, was assigned to Kinki University (Osaka, Japan) and NOF Corp. (Tokyo).

"Therapeutic agent for short tear breakup time-type dry eye and eye drops containing same" was invented by Noriaki Nagai (Higashiosaka, Japan), Ryotaro Seiriki (Higashiosaka, Japan), Misa Minami (Higashiosaka, Japan), Shunsuke Sakurai (Kawasaki, Japan) and Eiji Harata (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating short tear breakup time-type dry eye, including a step of administering, to a mammal including a human, (i) a copolymer (P) having three kinds of different constituent units represented by formulae (1a) to (1c)...