US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on Dec. 9 for "Polymer-based implant for retinal therapy and methods of making and using the same" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,263, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Polymer-based implant for retinal therapy and methods of making and using the same" was invented by Morgan Fedorchak (Mars, Pa.), Leah Byrne (Pittsburgh) and Jose-Alain Sahel (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are embodiments of a polymer-based implant and methods of making and using the same. The polymer-based implant comprises a polymer component and a therapeutic agent. In some embodiments, the polymer-based implant can be used to treat and/or prevent retinal diseases and/or retinopa...