KANAGAWA, Japan & LITTLE ROCK, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SCOHIA PHARMA, Inc, a Japanese biotech company dedicated to developing medicines for lifestyle-related diseases with high unmet needs, and Kuria Therapeutics, Inc., a U.S. pharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics for ophthalmic and dermal diseases, today announced that the U.S. Patent Office has issued a composition-of-matter patent covering SCO-116, a novel Nrf2 activator being developed by Kuria for prevention and treatment of eye and skin diseases.