ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,492, issued on Aug. 19.

"Compositions and methods for treating age-related macular degeneration" was invented by Aya Barzelay (Ramat Gan, Israel), Adiel Barak (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Anat Loewenstein (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to compositions for treating oxidative-stress related-damage of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells by contacting orbital fat-derived mesenchymal cell with the damaged RPE cells."

The patent was filed on March 7, 2019, under Application No. 16/978,735.

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