Ophthalmic device for treatment of dry eye
AssigneeBausch + Lomb Ireland Limited
InventorsAlok Kumar Awasthi, Sankarsan Biswas, Feng-Yang Shih, Jade Russell, James Anthony DiBella, Jr., Anna Flach, Alana Ingham
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Abstract
An ophthalmic device is a polymerization product of a monomeric mixture including (a) a lifitegrast or a salt thereof-containing hydrophilic polymer comprising a releasable linking group and an ethylenically unsaturated reactive group, and (b) an ophthalmic device-forming comonomer.
Claims20
An ophthalmic device comprising a polymerization product of a monomeric mixture comprising (a) a lifitegrast or a salt thereof-containing hydrophilic polymer comprising a releasable linking group and an ethylenically unsaturated reactive group;
- and (b) an ophthalmic device-forming comonomer.
A method for making an ophthalmic device, comprising:
- (a) subjecting a monomeric mixture comprising (i) a lifitegrast or a salt thereof-containing hydrophilic polymer comprising a releasable linking group and an ethylenically unsaturated reactive group, and (ii) an ophthalmic device-forming comonomer to polymerization conditions to provide a polymerized ophthalmic device;
- and
- (b) hydrating the polymerized ophthalmic device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.