US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION on Aug. 26 for "Thermoresponsive hydrogel containing polymer microparticles for noninvasive ocular drug delivery" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,959, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh).

"Thermoresponsive hydrogel containing polymer microparticles for noninvasive ocular drug delivery" was invented by Morgan V. Fedorchak (Wexford, Pa.), Steven R. Little (Allison Park, Pa.), Joel S. Schuman (Pittsburgh) and Anthony Cugini (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for sustained delivery of an agent to an ocular organ in a subject, comprising topically delivering to the ocular surface a liquid thermoresponsive hydrogel comprising agent-loaded polymer microparticles, wherein the agent is ...