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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:
Nov. 09, 1993
Filed:
Mar. 23, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Edward J Roche, Paoli, PA (US);
Susan M Papile, Blue Bell, PA (US);
Eleanor M Freeman, Norristown, PA (US);
Assignee:
McNeil-PPC, Inc., Milltown, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
424464 ; 424482 ; 424490 ; 424480 ; 424476 ; 514396 ;
Abstract
Chewable medicament tablets are made from coated rotogranules of a medicament wherein the rotogranules are formed from a granulation mixture of medicament, e.g. famotidine binder, e.g. polyvinylpyrrolidone, and carrier, e.g. lactose and the rotogranules are coated with cellulose acetate, cellulose acetate butyrate or a combination thereof and polyvinyl pyrrolidone and a process for making such tablets and a method of providing taste masking of medicaments utilizing such coated rotogranules.