ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,561, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).

"Ophthalmological composition" was invented by Jennifer-Magdalena Masch (Ratzeburg, Germany) and Michael Thaller (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ophthalmological composition includes at least one viscoelastic polymer, wherein the composition comprises at least one thermoresponsive compound that in a predefined wavelength range undergoes a temperature-dependent discontinuous change in at least one physical property from a group color and transmittance. The disclosure further relates to such an ophthalmological composition wherein a temperature-dep...