ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,143, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to R.P. Scherer Technologies LLC (Carson City, Nev.).
"Softgel capsules and a method for preparing the softgel capsules" was invented by Haitao Li (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Qi Fang (St. Petersburg, Fla.) and Karunakar Sukuru (St. Petersburg, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for preparing a softgel capsule including treating a softgel capsule with a solution including calcium salt, wherein the softgel capsule includes a fill material and a shell composition including pectin."
The patent was filed on Dec. 13, 2023, under Application No. 18/842,531.
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