A61J 3/072
Sealing capsules
Official title: {Sealing capsules, e.g. rendering them tamper-proof}
A61J3/072 (Sealing capsules) appears on 109 US grants and 90 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61J- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 90
- Assignees
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- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- High barrier powder capsule29 Sep 2026US 12,746,351 B2Philip Morris Products S. A.
- 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
- Dual release dosage form capsule and methods, devices and systems for making same3 Mar 2026US 12,564,557 B2Gel Cap Technologies, LLC
- Capsule filling machine for filling a capsule and method for operating a capsule filling machine6 Jan 2026US 12,514,789 B2Syntegon Technology GmbH
- Apparatus for sealing and drying capsules, and a method for dismantling capsule carriers19 Mar 2026US 2026/0076875 A1Syntegon Technology GmbH
- Pharmaceutical production facility comprising a measuring device28 Aug 2025US 2025/0268796 A1Syntegon Technology GmbH
- Method and system for filling and sealing liquid-filled hard capsule28 Aug 2025US 2025/0270082 A1Wuhan Kornnac Technology Co., Ltd.
- Device for sealing capsules7 Aug 2025US 2025/0248900 A1Syntegon Technology GmbH
- Hard capsule including multiple locking parts3 Jul 2025US 2025/0213492 A1Suheung Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method for forming pharmaceutical capsules from hydrophilic polymers128US 4,738,817 AWarner-Lambert Company · 1988
- Method for sealing non-enteric capsules70US 4,478,658 AWarner-Lambert Company · 1984
- Multi-phase, multi-compartment capsular delivery apparatus and methods for using same68US 7,670,612 B2INNERCAP Technologies, Inc. · 2010
- Method for forming pharmaceutical capsules from starch compositions67US 4,738,724 AWarner-Lambert Company · 1988
- Process for encapsulation of caplets in a capsule and solid dosage forms obtainable by such process50US 6,245,350 B1Warner-Lambert Company · 2001