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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:
Aug. 01, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 27, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
R. P. Scherer Corporation, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
424455 ; 424451 ; 424452 ; 514785 ; 514786 ; 514937 ; 514975 ;
Abstract
There is provided a carrier for hydrophobic drugs, and pharmaceutical compositions based thereon, which carrier comprises a digestible oil and a pharmaceutically acceptable surfactant component for dispersing the oil in vivo upon administration of the carrier, which comprises a hydrophilic surfactant, said surfactant component being such as not to substantially inhibit the in vivo lipolysis of the digestible oil.