Patents Assigned to Telor Ophthalmic Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  • Methods and products for treating presbyopia
    Patent number: 5488050
    Abstract: This invention is directed to treatment for increasing the accommodative ability of the eye, for the purpose of decreasing the severity of clinically evident presbyopia, an age-related loss of accommodative ability. The compounds and methods of the invention act by decreasing the tone of parts of the ciliary muscle which act to decrease accommodation, thereby increasing the contractile force of the remaining ciliary muscle, with resultant increased accommodative function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1996
    Assignee: Telor Ophthalmic Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventor: Arthur H. Neufeld
  • Methods and products for treating presbyopia
    Patent number: 5459133
    Abstract: This invention is directed to treatment for increasing the accommodative ability of the eye, for the purpose of decreasing the severity of clinically evident presbyopia, an age-related loss of accommodative ability. The compounds and methods of the invention act by decreasing the tone of parts of the ciliary muscle which act to decrease accommodation, thereby increasing the contractile force of the remaining ciliary muscle, with resultant increased accommodative function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1995
    Assignee: Telor Ophthalmic Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventor: Arthur H. Neufeld