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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. 13, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 20, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Francis Joseph David Bealin-Kelly, Surrey, GB;
Bernhard Hanke, Bad Schwalbach, DE;
Paul Nienaber, Ingelheim, DE;
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 9/68 ; A61K 4/700 ; A61K 9/20 ; A23K 3/00 ; A23G 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 9/68 ; A61K 4/700 ; A61K 9/20 ; A23K 3/00 ; A23G 3/00 ;
Abstract
A throat drop comprises from 60% to 95% of an edible shell and from 5% to 40% of an aqueous filling, by weight of the drop. The filling contains a throat relief agent, from 8% to 95%, by weight, water and from 0.001% to 10%, by weight, of a vesicle-forming agent which encapsulates the throat relief agents with vesicles which are dispersed within the filling. The vesicles have a number average particle size of from about 1 to about 100 &mgr;m.