ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,932, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Eyenovia Inc. (New York).
"Ophthalmic drug delivery" was invented by Bernard L. Ballou Jr. (Raleigh, N.C.), Mark Packer (Eugene, Ore.), Russell John Mumper (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Tsontcho Ianchulev (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes and provides a method of delivering a medicament to an eye of a subject in need thereof a solution, the method comprising: (a) providing droplets containing the medicament with a specified average size and average initial ejecting velocity, and (b) delivering the medicament to the eye, where the droplets deliver a percent...