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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 1992
Filed:
Jul. 13, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
John Urquhart, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Aprex Corporation, Fremont, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
424422 ; 600 12 ; 424426 ; 424436 ;
Abstract
A pharmaceutical preparation is provided for oral or anal administration containing, in addition to a selected pharmacologically active agent, at least one magnetic material capable of reacting to an externally acting magnetic field of an electronic monitoring device, so that after administration to a patient, a signal is produced that is selectively detectable by such a monitoring device, thus providing information on whether the preparation has been taken or not by the patient and/or facilitates locating the preparation or the magnetic material in the region of the gastrointestinal tract of the patient.
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