ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,356, issued on July 1, was assigned to The Doshisha (Kyoto, Japan).

"mTOR-inhibitor-containing medicine for treating or preventing ophthalmic symptoms, disorders, or diseases, and application thereof" was invented by Noriko Koizumi (Kyoto, Japan) and Naoki Okumura (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a medicine and a method for preventing or treating ophthalmic symptoms, disorders, or diseases. The present invention provides an mTOR-inhibitor-containing composition for preventing or treating ophthalmic symptoms, disorders, or diseases. In some of the embodiments of the present invention, this com...