ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,273, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Sentiss Pharma Private Ltd. (New Delhi).

"Sterilization process of timolol gel forming solution through aseptic filtration" was invented by Manish Kumar Singh (Haryana, India), Sai Kiran Jana (Haryana, India), Mallinath Harwalkar (Haryana, India), Kishor Deo (Haryana, India) and Deepak Bahri (Haryana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides the sterilization of an ophthalmic composition comprising timolol or salt thereof optionally with pharmaceutically acceptable agent(s) wherein the sterilization is achieved through aseptic filtration technique. Further the present...