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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2001
Stephen Paul Bartels, Wyckoff, NJ (US);
Cara Larraine Baustian, Palisades, NY (US);
George Edwin Bunce, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Leon Ellenbogen, New City, NY (US);
Frederick L. Ferris, III, Columbia, MD (US);
Jin Kinoshita, El Macero, CA (US);
James Cecil Smith, Jr., Glenn Dale, MD (US);
David A. Souerwine, Pittsford, NY (US);
Bausch & Lomb Incorporated, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A nutritional or dietary supplement composition that strengthens and promotes retinal health through the prevention, stabilization, reversal and/or treatment of visual acuity loss by reducing the risk of developing late stage or advanced age-related macular degeneration in persons with early age-related macular degeneration. The nutritional or dietary supplement composition may likewise reduce the risk of vision loss associated with the development of cataracts. The essential ingredients of the nutritional or dietary supplement composition are vitamin C, vitamin E, beta-carotene, zinc and copper. The essential ingredients are preferably provided in a tablet form suitable for oral ingestion. Preferably the composition is taken in the form of one or two tablets taken twice daily.
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