ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,579, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Fertin Pharma A/S (Vejle, Denmark).
"Compressed nicotine lozenge" was invented by Dorthe Schackinger Boesen (Vejle, Denmark), Heidi Ziegler Bruun (Vejle Ost, Denmark), Bruno Provstgaard Nielsen (Vejle Ost, Denmark), Kent Albin Nielsen (Brande, Denmark) and Rikke Pranger-Rasmussen (Vejle, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water-dissolvable compressed oral nicotine lozenge is disclosed, the oral nicotine lozenge comprising a first module and a second module, the first and the second modules being fused by compression, the first module being a lozenge module comprising at least one sugar al...