ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,284, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to EsoCap AG (Switzerland).
"Capsule device with an aperture formed by an overlap of two halve-capsule shells" was invented by Christoph Rosenbaum (Greifswald, Germany), Viviane Gamboni (Aarau Rohr, Switzerland), Silvio Moser (Rutihof, Switzerland), Peter Frech (Bruttisellen, Switzerland), Andreas Kaiser (Kaisten, Switzerland) and Peter Stangier (Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical dosage form for application to a mucous membrane, in particular to a buccal, intestinal, rectal or vaginal mucous membrane, comprising at least one str...