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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2004
Gopi M. Venkatesh, Vandalia, OH (US);
Ken Kangyi Qian, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Shyam Vangala, Huber Heights, OH (US);
James M. Clevenger, Vandalia, OH (US);
Donald Guenther, Brookville, OH (US);
Gopi M. Venkatesh, Vandalia, OH (US);
Ken Kangyi Qian, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Shyam Vangala, Huber Heights, OH (US);
James M. Clevenger, Vandalia, OH (US);
Donald Guenther, Brookville, OH (US);
Eurand Pharmaceuticals, Ltd., Dublin, IE;
Abstract
A tablet that rapidly disintegrates in the oral cavity comprising a compressed blend of rapidly dispersing microgranules prepared by granulating a sugar alcohol or a saccharide or a mixture thereof having an average particle size less than about 30 microns and a disintegrant, and a taste-masked microcapsule containing at least one drug, the microcapsule being prepared by granulating a pharmaceutically acceptable formulation comprising at least one drug in a therapeutically effective amount and at least one polymeric binder that improves resilience of the microgranules, wet milling the granulated mass, and microencapsulating the milled granules to provide microcapsules.