ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,531, issued on July 14, was assigned to MENICON Co. LTD. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Ocular device case and refill container used for the ocular device case" was invented by Osamu Mori (Kasugai, Japan), Kazuharu Niwa (Kasugai, Japan), Issaku Ito (Kasugai, Japan) and Tomohiro Inagaki (Kasugai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an ocular device case with a new structure that can solve unexpected problems in the related art, for example, adverse effects on user's eyes by splashes of treatment liquid upon pouring the treatment liquid into the device case from a separate refill container. In a device case 10 including: a case body 18...