US Patent Issued to ATOZ PHARMACEUTICALS PVT on May 26 for "Nongranulated compressed tablets of mesalamine, and process of preparation thereof" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,255, issued on May 26, was assigned to ATOZ PHARMACEUTICALS PVT LTD (Chennai, India).

"Nongranulated compressed tablets of mesalamine, and process of preparation thereof" was invented by Olaganathan Arumugam (Chennai, India) and Natarajan Venkatachalam (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a composition suitable for direct compression into tablets without prior granulation procedures comprising: a) mesalamine or its prodrug or derivatives thereof and b) at least one pharmaceutically acceptable excipient, wherein the composition is directly compressed into a minitablet such that largest dimensi...