US Patent Issued to PREMARK PHARMA on July 7 for "Treatment of ocular disease" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,045, issued on July 7, was assigned to PREMARK PHARMA GMBH (Reinach, Switzerland).

"Treatment of ocular disease" was invented by Ian Vessey (Reinach, Switzerland) and Friedrich K. Mayer (Oberwil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is in the field of ocular disease therapy. In particular, the invention relates to a composition comprising pimecrolimus for use in the topical treatment of moderate to severe blepharitis, in particular in a patient group comprising subjects with a clinical diagnosis of moderate to severe blepharitis, wherein the subjects to be treated have signs and symptoms of moderate to seve...