Abstract: A solid dosage form coating composition including gray oyster shell powder in a form suitable to be coated on a solid dosage form. A method including coating a solid dosage form with a coating composition comprising gray oyster shell powder; and drying the coating composition into a film.

Abstract: Method for producing pigment-containing granules for pharmaceutical applications based on film-forming enteric polymers, wherein the production of the granules takes place by a spraying process in which the enteric polymeric film formers are introduced as initial charge in a fluidized bed, and an aqueous pigment suspension, which comprises a plasticizer that is solid at 20° C., is sprayed onto the fluidized bed.

Abstract: In some aspects of the present application, a method of forming one or more layers of at least a portion of a drug delivery device (DDD) is described. The method can include providing a substrate; providing one or more DDD components that are dissolved or dispersed in one or more pharmaceutically compatible phase change inks; ejecting, by one or more nozzles, a first portion of the one or more pharmaceutically compatible phase change inks to form a first layer on the substrate; and ejecting, by the one or more nozzles, a second portion of the pharmaceutically compatible phase change inks to form a second layer over the first layer.

Abstract: The present invention describes a rosuvastatin calcium composition that does not require tribasic phosphate salts to be stable and that also has suitable bioavailability, and is helpful in reducing lipid and/or cholesterol levels in the body, as well as the manufacturing method of this composition.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for forming a color pattern on a medical device.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for forming a color pattern on a medical device.

Abstract: A method for labeling a UV-fluorescing substrate includes positioning a UV-fluorescing substrate adjacent to an inkjet material dispenser, and selectively jetting an edible, invisible, non-UV fluorescing ink onto the UV-fluorescing substrate with the inkjet material dispenser.

Abstract: The present invention relates to rapidly dissolving edible film dosage form incorporating indicia. The indicia may correspond to an active ingredient that may be evenly distributed throughout the film. The indicia may be associated with at least one surface of the film composition and provide information to the consumer that is relevant to the edible film dosage form.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for treating a solid dosage form to improve the printability and abrasion resistance of a print to be produced on a surface of the solid dosage form, which includes treating the surface of the solid dosage form with a polyethylene glycol-containing aqueous solution before printing; a production method of a solid dosage form with a printed surface, which includes printing on the surface after the aforementioned treatment; and a solid dosage form having a print improved in abrasion resistance on its surface, which can be obtained by the aforementioned production method.

Abstract: The disclosed invention provides tools and techniques for marking data on the surface of solid medications and tracking the medication in various ways using the data. According to preferred embodiments, an optical reader may be used to discern the features of data recorded on the surface of medication in a micromatrix pattern. The data read by the reader is then used in the performance of tracking and/or control tasks.

Abstract: To improve anticounterfeiting protection, a method for imprinting pharmaceutical unit compositions comprising: providing a pharmaceutical unit composition, partially coating the exterior of the composition with a coating, stamping the coating with a stamp comprising a plurality of identification features, wherein identification features from the stamp are at least partially transposed in the coating and form a barcode, wherein the plurality of identification features comprise at least one lateral dimension of about 1,000 nm or less. Other objects can be coated and stamped including currency and luxury goods.

Abstract: A method for the manufacture of a medical wire includes manufacturing a fluororesin-coated wire and irradiating with infrared radiation. The fluororesin-coated wire is manufactured with a fluororesin-containing liquid, or fluororesin powder body being applied to the outer circumference of a superelastic alloy wire or of a resin-coated superelastic alloy wire. The fluororesin-coated wire is irradiated with a defined wavelength of infrared radiation for a defined period of time.

Abstract: The present invention relates to solid dietary and/or nutraceutic pharmaceutical compositions for oral use based on SAMe, or salts thereof, in combination with inositol and/or derivatives thereof and to a process for their preparation. The present invention relates to a method of stabilising a solid composition for oral use based on SAMe or salts thereof, making use of inositol and/or derivatives thereof with the addition of magnesium oxide. The present invention also relates to the use of SAMe, or salts thereof, in combination with inositol and/or derivatives thereof with the possible further addition of melatonine, St. John's Wort and/or lemon balm for the treatment of depressive states and/or panic syndromes.

Abstract: The present invention features a method of making a coated tablet by dipping a core comprising an active agent into a coating liquid and drying said dipped core to form a outer-coating on the core, wherein the coating liquid contains at least one a starch having an amylose content of at least about 50 percent by weight of said starch.

Abstract: A method for forming photonic particles, where the method includes the steps of preparing a porous photonic material layer, patterning a soluble polymer on the porous photonic material layer, leaving dividing portions of the material layer untreated, infusing the polymer into the material layer, and removing the dividing portions of the material to obtain the photonic particles.

Abstract: A process for enrobing a core, such as a tablet core, uses a coating that is made of a patterned film having portions that are visually distinct (e.g, differently colored) from one another and having a transition line segment between these visually distinct portions. At least a portion of an outer surface of the core is covered with the film, such that the transition line segment forms a substantially continuous transition line on the coating and such that a film seam is formed which is different from the transition line. Alternatively, the coating is formed from two such patterned films, in which case the outer surface of the core is covered with the two films such that the two transition line segments cooperate to form a substantially continuous transition line on the coating and a film seam is formed which is different from the transition line.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to film coating systems for use on oral dosage forms such as compressed tablets and orally-ingestible substrates which have improved pearlescent qualities. The film coating systems can be applied either directly to a substrate or after the substrate has been coated with a subcoat. In preferred aspects, the pearlescent film coating is prepared as a dry powder mixture containing a cellulosic polymer, a detackifier, a gloss enhancer, and a pearlescent pigment. Film coating compositions containing an aqueous suspension of the powder mixtures, methods of applying the coatings to substrates and the coated substrates are also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention provides microfabricated silicon substrates and devices having extremely small apertures (termed “nanoapertures”) and methods for producing such nanoapertures. The devices have a nanoaperture (which may have a diameter ranging from about a few millimeters to as small as a few nm) across a substrate effective to connect two regions separated by the substrate. The devices are suitable for the formation of lipid bilayer membranes across the apertures, and for use in devices such as biosensors. Substrates and devices may include multiple nanoapertures, which may each support a lipid bilayer membrane, allowing fault tolerant devices such as fault-tolerant biosensors, and allowing devices able to sense more than one target molecule.

Abstract: Edible or inert or nontoxic inks or other materials are printed or otherwise transferred onto the surfaces of medicated chewing gums, medicated candies, and other medicated edible products so as to provide easy and immediate visual identification of the medicaments and the dosages of the medicaments present and to identify the manufacturer of the medicated product and provide such data as may be needed to trace the batch of manufacture. Medicaments may be incorporated into the ink or material transferred onto chewing gums, candies, and other non-medicated edible products so as to create medicated chewing gums, medicated candies, and other medicated edible products. This printed identification may be done in various colors to further aid in the visual identification of the medicaments present and further guarantee safe medication of the patient.

Abstract: A product management method for securing interests of a just rightful claimant of an intellectual property right is provided. The product management method is a product management method for a display module including a circuit formed by integrating a transistor which is formed using a thin film semiconductor on an insulating substrate, which, in a manufacturing process of the transistor, forms characters, a figure, a symbol, or a numeral, or a combination thereof on any one of thin films constituting the transistor, indicates attribution of an intellectual property right pertaining to the display module according to the characters, the figure, the symbol, or the numeral, or the combination thereof, and secures interests of a just rightful claimant of an intellectual property right.

Abstract: A method for metering active ingredient in powder form onto a predetermined area is characterized in that the active ingredient is transferred as electrically charged powder to a roll with the opposite charge, the active ingredient transferred to the roll is transferred to a two-dimensional substrate with an electric charge opposite to the active ingredient, the active ingredient transferred to the substrate is fixed by means of a heat treatment.

Abstract: Method of applying a marking or image on a substrate which is provided with a coating by means of a sol-gel process. After the application of a layer of a sol-gel solution on the substrate, an ink which is compatible with the sol-gel is applied on the wet layer. The ink penetrates into the layer and then the layer is cured to form the coating.

Abstract: A tablet coating comprising gellan gum is disclosed along with a process which comprises admixing gellan gum and water under effective shear conditions to prepare an aqueous gellan gum coating composition thereof whereby the aqueous gellan gum coating composition is applied in an adherent fashion to a placebo or a tablet containing a pharmaceutical to form a gellan gum coated placebo or gellan gum coated active drug.

Abstract: A dry film coating composition used to make a bright white film coating for nutritional supplements, pharmaceutical tablets, and the like, comprises dextrose, an auxiliary film-former, and titanium dioxide. Optionally, but advantageously, the coating composition also may include one or more of the following components: a plasticizer, a surfactant, a flow aid, and a preservative.