US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION on April 14 for "Thermoresponsive gel eye drop for ocular delivery of cysteamine" (Pennsylvania, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,577, issued on April 14, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh).

"Thermoresponsive gel eye drop for ocular delivery of cysteamine" was invented by Morgan Virginia Fedorchak (Mars, Pa.), Steven R. Little (Allison Park, Pa.) and Joel S. Schuman (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document provided ocular delivery systems for treatment of cystinosis as well as methods for making such ocular delivery systems and methods for using such ocular delivery systems. For example, ocular delivery systems designed to include spray-dried, cysteamine-loaded microparticles suspe...