US Patent Issued to NIPPON CHEMIPHAR on Oct. 20 for "Citrate-containing composition, production method and dry method therefor, and tablet containing said composition" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,194, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NIPPON CHEMIPHAR Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Citrate-containing composition, production method and dry method therefor, and tablet containing said composition" was invented by Hideto Takeda (Tokyo) and Nozomu Shimazaki (Chikusei, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method for producing a composition containing a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of citric acid, a hydrate thereof, or a mixture thereof and having a moisture content of 4.0% by mass or less, the method including irradiating a composition containing a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of citric acid, a hydrate thereof, or ...