US Patent Issued to SIRIO PHARMA on May 26 for "Starch film-forming compositions and methods of their use for preparing capsule shells" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,256, issued on May 26, was assigned to SIRIO PHARMA Co. LTD. (Shantou, China).

"Starch film-forming compositions and methods of their use for preparing capsule shells" was invented by Xufa Li (Shantou, China), Qiong Chen (Shantou, China), Xuteng Yang (Shantou, China) and Jiewei Chen (Shantou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides starch film-forming compositions and methods of their use for preparing capsule shells. The starch film-forming composition includes a gellan gum and at least one starch, wherein the total acyl content of the gellan gum ranges from 14 to 34%. The starch film-forming composition o...