US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation, Eli Lilly and Co. on Aug. 25 for "Fluidized bed granulation and coating systems and methods" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,976, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Eli Lilly and Co. (Indianapolis).

"Fluidized bed granulation and coating systems and methods" was invented by Paul R. Mort (West Lafayette, Ind.), Line Koleilat (Cologne, France), Jonathan Wade (Indianapolis) and Joshua Hanson (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluidized bed granulation (FBG) system includes a pre-wetting subsystem, wherein feedstock is pre-wet to a predetermined % value, a fluidization chamber (FC), an inlet coupled to the FC, a plenum coupled to the FC by a distributor plate having slots through which a fluidiz...