US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Jan. 20 for "Vapor phase coatings for pharmaceutical solubility control" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,748, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Vapor phase coatings for pharmaceutical solubility control" was invented by Colin C. Neikirk (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing a pharmaceutical composition having a drug-containing core enclosed by one or more metal oxide materials is provided. The method includes the sequential steps of (a) loading the particles comprising the drug into a reactor, (b) applying a vaporous or gaseous metal precursor to the particles in the reactor, (c) performing one or more pump-purge cycles of the reactor using inert gas, ...