Patents Examined by Amy L. Hulina
  • Patent number: 5472714
    Abstract: The invention relates to color-stable tablets for the therapeutic drug oxcarbazepine, which tablets are provided with a hydrophilic, permeable layer containing white pigments and a hydrophilic, permeable outer layer containing white pigments in combination with iron(II) oxide pigments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1995
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventor: Jacques Bourquin
  • Patent number: 5443846
    Abstract: Granulated preparations are provided by causing a granular, preferably spherical polyglycerol fatty acid ester having a melting poing of 40.degree.-80.degree. C. together with a powder for fluidized bed formation and heating the resulting fluidized mixture at a temperature in the vicinity of the melting point of the polyglycerol fatty acid ester. The powder may be contain as least one pharmacologically active ingredient. The polyglycerol fatty acid ester shows no crystal polymorphism and does not inactivate the pharmacologically active ingredient. Furthermore, the dissolution and release of the pharmacologically active ingredient can be controlled by varying the HLB of the polyglycerol fatty acid ester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1995
    Assignee: Takeda Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Yoshioka, Hidetoshi Horibe, Toshio Kashihara
  • Patent number: 5391374
    Abstract: A fragrance-delivery composition is provided having cake-forming components and microcapsules containing fragrance oil. The composition is a coherent cake, and has a VOC content less than 250 grams of per liter less water, fragrance oil and exempt solvents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1995
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Jack W. Charbonneau, Daniel B. Pendergrass, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5374420
    Abstract: A hairspray/hair setting composition comprising:a) 0.001-20% of a neutralizable hair fixative resin,b) 0.001-8% of a base, andc) 0.001-5% of an acid surfactant precursorin an alcohol or aqueous/alcohol carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1994
    Assignee: Revlon Consumer Products Corporation
    Inventor: Terry Gerstein
  • Patent number: 5374429
    Abstract: A medical adhesive sheet comprising a support comprising a laminate of a polyester film having a thickness of from 0.5 to 6 .mu.m and a polyester nonwoven fabric having a basis weight of from 5 to 20 g/m.sup.2, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer laminated on the surface of the nonwoven fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1994
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Kinoshita, Saburo Otsuka, Hitoshi Akemi, Kazuhiro Higashio
  • Patent number: 5362483
    Abstract: Flavorings, seasonings, fragrances, skin texturizers, deodorants, and the like, and methods of making such are disclosed. The method includes melting a water soluble carrier material and dispersing an additive within the melt. The dispersed melt is then sprayed into a chilled gas and the resulting powder is recovered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1994
    Assignee: Morgan Food Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert D. Morgan, Peter A. Blagdon
  • Patent number: 5346692
    Abstract: The invention relates to a nail lacquer for treating onychomycosis, comprised of a film-forming agent, an antimycotically active substance, and urea, wherewith the antimycotically active substance and the urea are liberated from the lacquer when the lacquer is applied. A preferred formulation comprises cellulose derivative(s) as film former(s), clotrimazole as the antimycotic (present in the amount of 5-30 wt. % based on the weight of the non-volatile components), urea (present in the amount of 15-60 wt. % based on the weight of the non-volatile components), and dibutyl phthalate as a plasticizer, in a solvent mixture comprised of acetone and ethanol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1994
    Assignee: Roehm Pharma GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Wohlrab, Katrin Wellner
  • Patent number: 5322696
    Abstract: Flavorings, seasonings, fragrances, skin texturizers, deodorants, and the like, and methods of making such are disclosed. The method includes melting a water soluble carrier material and dispersing an additive within the melt. The dispersed melt is then sprayed into a chilled gas and the resulting powder is recovered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1994
    Assignee: Morgan Food Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert D. Morgan, Peter A. Blagdon
  • Patent number: 5322691
    Abstract: A flexible ocular insert device adapted for the controlled sustained release of an ophthalmic drug into the eye. In one embodiment, the device includes an elongated body of a polymeric material in the form of a rod or tube containing a pharmaceutically active ingredient and with at least two anchoring protrusions extending radially outwardly from the body. The device has a length of at least 8 mm and the diameter of its body portion including the protrusions does not exceed 1.9 mm. The sustained release mechanism may, for example, be by diffusion or by osmosis or bioerosion. The insert device is advantageously inserted into the upper or lower fornix of the eye so as to be independent of movement of the eye by virtue of the fornix anatomy. The protrusions may be of various shapes such as, for example, ribs, screw threads, dimples or bumps, truncated cone-shaped segments or winding braid segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1994
    Inventors: Sohrab Darougar, Alan L. Weiner
  • Patent number: 5308706
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a heat reflecting sandwich plate made up of a first and a second transparent plates bonded together with a transparent resin film. The first transparent plate is coated on the inside thereof with a heat reflecting film which is a laminate composed of two metal oxide layers, with a noble metal layer intervening between them. The noble metal layer has a sheet resistance of 4-10 ohms/square. The first and second metal oxide layers have thicknesses controlled such that their ratio is in the range of 1.1 to 1.6. The heat reflecting sandwich plate produces reflected rays which have a chromaticness specified by -1.ltoreq.a.ltoreq.1 and -1.ltoreq.b.ltoreq.1, where a and b denote the chromaticness indices of Hunter's color specification system, and has a visible light reflectivity lower than 10%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1994
    Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Kawaguchi, Tatsuya Hyodo, Takaharu Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 5206016
    Abstract: The invention relates to a novel oil-in-water type cream containing aluminum potassium sulfate, which is useful for the treatment of varicosity. The composition of the invention contains 1 to 15% by weight of pharmaceutically acceptable lipid-type ointment base, 0 to 10% by weight of aluminum potassium sulfate dissolved in water, 10 to 80% by weight of propylene glycol and 0.1 to 5.0% by weight of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide and/or cetyltrimethylammonium chloride as emulsifying agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1993
    Assignee: Florin Vegyipari Szovetkezet
    Inventors: Erno Orban, Peter Varnai
  • Patent number: 5094855
    Abstract: Ophthalmologic collagen coverings derived from animal eyes and a process preparing such coverings comprising treatment of a fibrous tunic of an animal eye with an alkali metal hydroxide in a saturated solution of a salt of an alkali metal, followed by neutralization, dissolution in an aqueous solution of an organic acid, purification of the resulting solution of collagen by dialysis against a buffer solution while bringing the solution of collagen to a pH of 4.5 to 7.5 and drying the thus-obtained solution of collagen simultaneously with shaping spherical coverings therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1992
    Assignee: Moskovsky Nauchno-Teknichesky Compleks "Mikrochirurgija Glaza"
    Inventors: Svyatoslav N. Fyodorov, Sergey N. Bagrov, Tatyana S. Amstislavskaya, Irina A. Maklakova, Sergey V. Maslenkov
  • Patent number: 5089269
    Abstract: A cosmetic composition on an external treatment agent containing microcapsules, with an average particle size of 0.1 to 2000 .mu.m, enclosing a hydrophobic component, wherein the microcapsules are composed of a gelatin film swollen with water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1992
    Assignee: Shiseido Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Noda, Michihiro Yamaguchi, Masanori Aizawa, Yoshimaru Kumano
  • Patent number: 4988502
    Abstract: A mascara composition is disclosed. The composition comprises a cosmetically acceptable hydrophobic pigment, a film-forming resin, a water dispersible thickening agent, a humectant and water. The treatment to make the pigment hydrophobic is preferably accomplished by treating the pigment or pigments with lecithin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 29, 1991
    Assignee: Revlon, Inc.
    Inventors: Hovig O. Ounanian, Kenneth A. Cohen, Joseph DiSomma, Harvey Gedeon