ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,739, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to ALCON INC. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Aqueous pharmaceutical compositions comprising benzyl atropine and uses thereof" was invented by Howard Allen Ketelson (Dallas) and Rekha Rangarajan (Fort Worth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed, in part, to aqueous pharmaceutical solutions comprising benzyl atropine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug thereof, at least one buffer, at least one tonicity agent, and at least one solubilizing agent, processes of preparing an aqueous solution comprising benzyl atropine, the products of such processes, and metho...