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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 30, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thierry Nivaggioli, San Francisco, CA (US);
George Colegrove, San Diego, CA (US);
John Flanagan, Neshanic Station, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 9/28 ; A61K 9/34 ; A61K 9/36 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 9/28 ; A61K 9/34 ; A61K 9/36 ;
Abstract
This invention relates to coatings employed to coat medicinal tablets. Such tablets include but are not limited to small pellet(s) of medication to be taken orally. In particular this invention relates to the use of alginates and/or gellan gum, mixtures thereof and the like as tablet coatings. More in particular, this invention relates to the use of alginate and gellan gum as tablet coatings for tablets which are useful for humans including coating(s) on medicinal tablets and to a process for making such coatings.