ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Durham, North Carolina, has been assigned a patent (No. 9,993,470, initially filed June 19, 2017) developed by four co-inventors for a combination therapy. The co-inventors are Casey Kopczynski, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Cheng-Wen Lin, Raleigh, North Carolina, Jill Marie Sturdivant, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Mitchell A. deLong, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/ . . .