US Patent Issued to The Jackson Laboratory on June 24 for "Treatment and prevention of ocular neurodegenerative disorder" (Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,986, issued on June 24, was assigned to The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Maine).

"Treatment and prevention of ocular neurodegenerative disorder" was invented by Simon W. M. John (Bar Harbor, Maine) and Peter Alexander Williams (Bar Harbor, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to the use of a pharmaceutical composition containing nicotinamide (NAM) and/or pyruvate as a neuroprotective medicament or gene therapy in the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders, in particular axon degeneration of neuronal tissue in ocular-related neurodegeneration diseases including glaucoma."

The patent was filed on July 12, 20...