US Patent Issued to THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY on Feb. 10 for "Method for assessing the efficacy of treatments for dry eye" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,947, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY (Bloomington, Ind.).

"Method for assessing the efficacy of treatments for dry eye" was invented by Carolyn G. Begley (Bloomington, Ind.), Ping Situ (Bloomington, Ind.) and Trefford L. Simpson (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspect of this invention include methods for measuring the connection between neurosensory abnormalities and dry eye and for testing the efficacy of new and existing therapies of the treatment of Dry Eye in patients with symptoms of this or related conditions."

The patent was filed on June 1, 2020, under Application No. 17...