US Patent Issued to R.P. Scherer Technologies on May 19 for "Delayed release softgel capsules in higher pH environment" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,854, issued on May 19, was assigned to R.P. Scherer Technologies LLC (Carson City, Nev.).

"Delayed release softgel capsules in higher pH environment" was invented by Karunakar Sukuru (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Qi Fang (St. Petersburg, Fla.) and Haitao Li (St. Petersburg, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in certain embodiments is a delayed release softgel capsules comprise a fill material that is encapsulated in a pH dependent shell composition, the pH dependent shell composition including pectin and gellan gum. Also disclosed are methods of preparing any of the delayed release softgel capsules described herein and methods of...