A61J 3/077
Manufacturing capsule shells
Official title: {Manufacturing capsule shells}
A61J3/077 (Manufacturing capsule shells) appears on 63 US grants and 69 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61J- Granted patents
- 63
- Published applications
- 69
- Assignees
- 47
- Inventors
- 147
- Latest grant
- 4 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Capsule device with an aperture formed by an overlap of two halve-capsule shells4 Aug 2026US 12,697,284 B2EsoCap AG
- Manufacturing device for gelatin capsule26 May 2026US 12,636,229 B2
- Dual release dosage form capsule and methods, devices and systems for making same3 Mar 2026US 12,564,557 B2Gel Cap Technologies, LLC
- Method of manufacturing oral dosage forms for extended drug release10 Feb 2026US 12,544,310 B2Craft Health Pte Ltd.
- Compartmented hard shell capsule and apparatus and method for forming, filling, and encapsulating a compartmented hard shell capsule25 Mar 2025US 12,257,349 B2
- Method and system for manufacturing dosing capsules for cannabis-derived resin1 May 2025US 2025/0134773 A1Capheads LLC
- Method to relieve stress in capsule shells to reduce propensity to break23 Jan 2025US 2025/0025377 A1R.P. Scherer Technologies, LLC
- Hard shell capsules having improved colon release16 Jan 2025US 2025/0017823 A1Evonik Operations Gmb
- Dual release dosage form capsule and methods, devices and systems for making same19 Sep 2024US 2024/0307315 A1Gel Cap Technologies, LLC
- Capsule device with an aperture formed by a wall part of one of two half-capsule shells11 Jul 2024US 2024/0226518 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method for the manufacture of pharmaceutical cellulose capsules328US 5,698,155 AGS Technologies, Inc. · 1997
- Apparatus for making capsule having plural chambers41US 4,627,808 A1986
- Method for manufacturing seamless capsule31US 6,719,933 B2Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha · 2004
- Apparatus for the manufacture of pharmaceutical cellulose capsules28US 5,750,157 AGS Technologies, Inc. · 1998
- Hard capsule composition and method of use28US 8,101,203 B22012