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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:
Jun. 14, 1994
Filed:
Mar. 19, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Edward J Roche, Paoli, PA (US);
Joseph P Reo, Harleysville, PA (US);
Assignee:
McNeil-PPC, Inc., Milltown, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
424495 ; 424441 ; 424494 ; 424499 ; 424501 ;
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. ibuprofen, polyvinylpyrrolidone, sodium starch glycolate and sodium lauryl sulfate and the rotogranules are coated with hydroxyethyl cellulose or a mixture of hydroxyethyl cellulose and hydroxypropyl methylcellulose and a process for making such tablets and a method of providing taste masking of medicaments utilizing such coated rotogranules in a tablet.