A61J 3/071
Into the form of telescopically engaged two-piece capsules
Official title: {into the form of telescopically engaged two-piece capsules}
A61J3/071 (Into the form of telescopically engaged two-piece capsules) appears on 479 US grants and 445 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61J- Granted patents
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- High barrier powder capsule29 Sep 2026US 12,746,351 B2Philip Morris Products S. A.
- Device for dosing solid particulate material22 Sep 2026US 12,740,920 B2Lonza Sales AG
- Capsule device with an aperture formed by an overlap of two halve-capsule shells4 Aug 2026US 12,697,284 B2EsoCap AG
- Pharmaceutical production facility comprising a measuring device23 Jun 2026US 12,661,306 B2Syntegon Technology GmbH
- Device for sealing capsules16 Jun 2026US 12,653,758 B2Syntegon Technology GmbH
- Pharmaceutical dosage form for application to mucous membranes and methods for producing same20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240783 A1EsoCap AG
- An apparatus, kit and method for mixing, filtering, and dosing of a biological material30 Jul 2026US 2026/0216003 A11Health Gut Inn Balance Aps
- Method and apparatus for an air-expelling, bubble-free capsule28 May 2026US 2026/0145839 A1Vita-Herb Nutriceuticals, Inc.
- Drug imaging device and drug packaging device21 May 2026US 2026/0137593 A1Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.
- Capsule inhaler for the administration of a phosphodiesterase-4 inhibitor26 Mar 2026US 2026/0083711 A1Chiesi Farmaceutici S.P. A.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method for the manufacture of pharmaceutical cellulose capsules328US 5,698,155 AGS Technologies, Inc. · 1997
- Oral drug compliance monitoring using radio frequency identification tags172US 7,382,263 B2Dow Global Technologies LLC · 2008
- Compounder apparatus168US 9,364,394 B2DEKA Products Limited Partnership · 2016
- Method for forming pharmaceutical capsules from hydrophilic polymers128US 4,738,817 AWarner-Lambert Company · 1988
- Compounder apparatus101US 9,687,417 B2DEKA Products Limited Partnership · 2017