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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2005
Stephen Paul Bartels, Pittsford, NY (US);
Cara Larraine Baustian, Palisades, NY (US);
George Edwin Bunce, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Leon Ellenbogen, New City, NY (US);
Frederick L. Ferris, Iii, Columbia, MA (US);
Jin Kinoshita, El Macero, CA (US);
James Cecil Smith, Jr., Glenn Dale, MD (US);
David A. Souerwine, Pittsford, NY (US);
Stephen Paul Bartels, Pittsford, NY (US);
Cara Larraine Baustian, Palisades, NY (US);
George Edwin Bunce, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Leon Ellenbogen, New City, NY (US);
Frederick L. Ferris, III, Columbia, MA (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 daily 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 ingredients of the daily nutritional or dietary supplement composition include vitamin C, vitamin E, lutein, zinc and copper. The ingredients are preferably provided in a tablet form suitable for oral ingestion.