ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,555, issued on March 3, was assigned to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.).

"Continuous processes for manufacturing impregnated porous carriers and for manufacturing pharmaceuticals containing impregnated porous carriers" was invented by Fernando J. Muzzio (Sparta, N.J.), Benjamin J. Glasser (Princeton, N.J.) and Thamer A. Omar (Piscataway, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a continuous process for impregnating active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) onto porous carriers, including the steps of introducing a porous carrier into a first feeder; continuously directing t...