ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,530, issued on April 29, was assigned to Zhende Medical Co. Ltd. (Shaoxing, China).

"Medical moisturizing eye patch and preparation method thereof" was invented by Jiao Wang (Shaoxing, China) and Jianguo Lu (Shaoxing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a medical moisturizing eye patch with excellent biocompatibility and lasting moisture retention and a preparation method thereof, in which firstly, the standing cultured bacterial cellulose film is purified and bleached; then, the bleached bacterial cellulose wet film is composited with a moisturizing agent; then, a mechanical pressing is made to be with a pr...