US Patent Issued to SANTEN PHARMACEUTICAL, Boehringer Ingelheim International on July 14 for "Medicament for preventing and/or treating dry eye" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,443, issued on July 14, was assigned to SANTEN PHARMACEUTICAL Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan) and Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH (Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany).

"Medicament for preventing and/or treating dry eye" was invented by Kenji Oki (Minoh, Japan), Takashi Nagano (Osaka, Japan), Nagayoshi Asano (Ikoma, Japan) and Koushi Fujisawa (Ikoma, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compound useful for preventing or treating dry eye and a medicament for preventing and/or treating dry eye comprising the same which does not substantially impact on the intraocular pressure are provided. A method of preventing and/or treating dry eye in a ...