ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,347, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to LENZ THERAPEUTICS OPERATIONS INC. (Solana Beach, Calif.).
"Compositions and methods for storage stable ophthalmic drugs" was invented by Gerald Horn (Highland Park, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is related to methods of stabilizing an ophthalmic drug by adding a surfactant and a viscosity enhancer to the ophthalmic drug to create a composition wherein the composition has a viscosity of about 25 centipoise or less at a shear rate of 1/1000 per second at 25 degrees Celsius and a viscosity of about 70 centipoise or more at shear rate of 1 per second at 25 degrees Celsiu...