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US 8,709,479 B2Granted
Sublingual coated tablet of fentanyl
AssigneeEthypharm
InventorsPascal Oury, Guillaume Benoist, Catherine Herry, Joseph Duvochel
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a fentanyl coated tablet and to the method for the preparation thereof.
Claims23
A sublingual coated tablet comprising
- a compressed core devoid of pharmaceutically active substance and comprising one or more diluting agents, and
- a sprayed coating comprising at least fentanyl as active substance and applied onto the compressed core from a solution, a suspension or a colloidal dispersion of fentanyl,
- wherein said one or more diluting agents comprises dicalcium phosphate which represents between 50 and 95% by mass of the compressed core.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.