ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,706, issued on April 8, was assigned to I.COM MEDICAL GMBH (Munich).

"Hyaluronic acid for relief of idiopathic ocular pain" was invented by Wolfgang Georg Konrad Muller-Lierheim (Munich) and Gysbert-Botho Van Setten (Danderyd, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns a method for relieving idiopathic ocular pain by administering an effective amount of a fluid composition comprising hyaluronic acid, a hyaluronic acid analogue, or a combination thereof, to the eye of a human or non-human animal subject, wherein the fluid composition is administered after onset of the idiopathic ocular pain and in the absence of dete...