US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on May 13 for "Gel for treating periocular and/or orbital pathologies and conditions" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,044, issued on May 13, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Gel for treating periocular and/or orbital pathologies and conditions" was invented by Morgan V. Fedorchak (Mars, Pa.), Jenny Yu (Pittsburgh) and Michael A. Washington (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising treating a periocular wound in a subject, comprising topically administering to the periocular wound a composition comprising at least one thermoresponsive gel."

The patent was filed on June 2, 2022, under Application No. 17/830,995.

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