A61K 9/4883
Capsule finishing
Official title: {Capsule finishing, e.g. dyeing, aromatising, polishing}
A61K9/4883 (Capsule finishing) appears on 65 US grants and 96 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61K- Granted patents
- 65
- Published applications
- 96
- Assignees
- 57
- Inventors
- 220
- Latest grant
- 14 Jul 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Engineered lipase variants14 Jul 2026US 12,680,091 B2Societe des Produits Nestle S. A.
- Sealing fluid for sealing capsules10 Feb 2026US 12,544,339 B2Capsugel Belgium NV
- Edible IJ ink, tablet, and capsule11 Nov 2025US 12,465,572 B2Toppan Inc.
- Film-forming composition containing surfactant or surfactant and salt as whitening agent23 Sep 2025US 12,419,812 B2Capsugel Belgium NV
- Acid resistant banding solution for two piece hard capsules12 Aug 2025US 12,383,504 B2Capsugel Belgium NV
- Hard capsule comprising shell containing light-shielding agent, hard capsule preparation solution, and hard capsule preparation method30 Jul 2026US 2026/0217925 A1Qualicaps Co., Ltd.
- Formulations comprising heterocyclic protein kinase inhibitors16 Jul 2026US 2026/0199334 A1Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.
- Novel formulations and vehicles9 Apr 2026US 2026/0097043 A1WisTa Laboratories Ltd.
- Drug delivery vehicles, methods of producing drug delivery vehicles, and methods of using drug delivery vehicles27 Feb 2025US 2025/0064748 A1Verily Life Sciences LLC
- Flavor banding of capsules19 Dec 2024US 2024/0415163 A1L. Perrigo Company
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method for extraction and reaction using supercritical fluids72US 6,294,194 B1Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · 2001
- Method for sealing non-enteric capsules70US 4,478,658 AWarner-Lambert Company · 1984
- Apparatus and method for sealing capsules32US 4,656,066 AWarner-Lambert Company · 1987
- Apparatus and method of sealing capsules27US 4,539,060 AWarner-Lambert Company · 1985
- Hard capsule composition and method of use27US 8,101,204 B22012