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US 10,500,155 B2Granted
Lozenge dosage form having a disintegrative tablet portion and a candy glass shell portion
AssigneeJohnson & Johnson Consumer Inc.
InventorsGerard P. McNally, Gregory Koll, Oliver Anderson
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a lozenge dosage form having a disintegrative tablet portion and a candy glass shell portion.
Claims7
A lozenge dosage form comprising:
- a disintegrative tablet portion;
- and
- a candy glass shell portion;
- wherein the disintegrative tablet portion comprises at least one pharmaceutically active ingredient;
- wherein the disintegrative tablet portion has a form of a plug as depicted in FIG. 3;
- wherein the plug is added to the candy glass shell portion after the candy glass shell portion is formed;
- wherein pressure and/or heat is added to the plug to fill in a predefined space within the candy glass shell portion;
- wherein the candy glass shell portion has a form of a spherical cap as depicted in FIG. 1;
- and
- wherein when combined the disintegrative tablet portion and the candy glass shell portion have a form as depicted in FIG. 2.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.