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US 9,844,930 B2Granted
3D printing of digestible shells for medicaments
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsLinn C. Hoover, William J. Hannaway
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Abstract
A method for producing edible medications comprises providing a three-dimensional (3D) model of the edible medication including an internal cavity sized and shaped for receipt of a medicament therein, printing an edible media to form a portion of the 3D shell corresponding to the model for introduction of the medicament, and then printing the edible media to form the remainder of the 3D shell to completely enclose the medicament within the edible media.
Claims20
A method for producing edible medications comprising:
- providing a three-dimensional (3D) model of the edible medication including an internal cavity sized and shaped for receipt of a medicament therein;
- providing the 3D model to a 3D printing machine;
- feeding an edible media to the 3D printing machine;
- printing a first portion of the 3D model with a plurality of layers of the edible media forming at least a portion of the internal cavity, the at least a portion of the internal cavity being empty and without any medicament located in the at least a portion of the internal cavity, the first portion configured to provide access to the at least a portion of the internal cavity;
- after printing the first portion, introducing a medicament into the at least a portion of the internal cavity;
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- after introducing the medicament, printing a remaining portion of the 3D model with another plurality of layers of the edible media completely enclosing the internal cavity and the medicament within the internal cavity.
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