US Patent Issued to Continuus Pharmaceuticals, I.M.A. Industria Macchine Autommatiche on Feb. 17 for "System for molding and coating of pharmaceutical tablets" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,407, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Continuus Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Woburn, Mass.) and I.M.A. Industria Macchine Autommatiche S.p.A. (Bologna, Italy).

"System for molding and coating of pharmaceutical tablets" was invented by Bhakti Halkude (Boston), Federica Casati (Boston), Evan James Goodwin (Georgetown, Canada), Saptarshi Chattopadhyay (Worcester, Mass.), Bayan Teisho Takizawa (Sudbury, Mass.) and Salvatore Mascia (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are new injection molding-coating devices for the continuous manufacturing of coated pharmaceutical tablets comprising one or more active pharmaceutical ingred...