US Patent Issued to MOR RESEARCH APPLICATIONS on Dec. 30 for "Mitochondrial transplantation and use thereof in ocular diseases" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,282, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MOR RESEARCH APPLICATIONS LTD. (Ramat Gan, Israel).

"Mitochondrial transplantation and use thereof in ocular diseases" was invented by Ziv Rotfogel (Ramat Gan, Israel), Keren Ben-Yaakov (Ramat Gan, Israel), Michal Simon (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Avital Eisenberg-Lerner (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for treatment of cornea epithelium pathologies and conditions, which may benefit from treatment of mitochondrial dysfunction, mitochondrial destruction and/or mitochondrial depletion in the eye, are disclosed. These methods comprise the transplantation of viable exogenous, i...