US Patent Issued to Nicox Ophthalmics on May 12 for "Process for the preparation of sterile ophthalmic aqueous fluticasone propionate form a nanocrystals suspensions" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,872, issued on May 12, was assigned to Nicox Ophthalmics Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Process for the preparation of sterile ophthalmic aqueous fluticasone propionate form a nanocrystals suspensions" was invented by Jean-Michel Bukowski (Villeneuve Leubet, France), Akshay Nadkarni (Cary, N.C.), Jose L. Boyer (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Brigitte Duquesroix-Chakroun (Cagnes sur Mer, France) and Tomas Navratil (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process of manufacturing sterile topical ophthalmic aqueous nanosuspensions of nanocrystals of fluticasone propionate Form A. The sterile topical ophthalmic nanosuspensions may be used in the treatm...