Patents by Inventor Colin Merwood

Colin Merwood has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Improvements in powder compaction and enrobing
    Publication number: 20110091591
    Abstract: An apparatus and method is disclosed for forming a compacted powder slug (7) coated with a film (1). The powder (6), e.g. of a medicament, is compacted and enrobed to produce compacted powder slugs (7) by preferably mechanically compacting a powder (6) and forming a film (1) of a material, prefer ably hydroxy propyl methyl cellulose, by vacuum or pressure differential, about the surface of the powder thus compacted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2004
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Inventors: Jason Teckoe, Colin Merwood, Michael Dann, Stephen Ronald Kessel, Ian Povey, Martin Good
  • Additional improvements in powder compaction and enrobing
    Patent number: 7785089
    Abstract: An apparatus and method is disclosed for forming a compacted powder slug coated with a film. The powder, e.g. of a medicament, is compacted and enrobed to produce compacted powder slugs by preferably mechanically compacting a powder and forming a film of a material, preferably hydroxy propyl methyl cellulose, by vacuum or pressure differential, about the surface of the powder thus compacted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Bioprogress Technology Limited
    Inventors: Jason Teckoe, Colin Merwood, Michael Dann, Stephen Ronald Kessel, Ian Povey, Martin Good
  • Powder compaction and enrobing
    Patent number: 7625622
    Abstract: An apparatus and method is disclosed for forming a compacted powder slug coated with a film. The powder, e.g. of a medicament, is compacted and enrobed to produce compacted powder slugs by preferably mechanically compacting a powder and forming a film of a material, preferably hydroxy propyl methyl cellulose, by vacuum or pressure differential, about the surface of the powder thus compacted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Bioprogress Technology Limited
    Inventors: Jason Teckoe, Colin Merwood, Michael Dann, Stephen Ronald Kessel, Ian Povey, Martin Good
  • Additional improvements in powder compaction and enrobing
    Publication number: 20050266116
    Abstract: An apparatus and method is disclosed for forming a compacted powder slug coated with a film. The powder, e.g. of a medicament, is compacted and enrobed to produce compacted powder slugs by preferably mechanically compacting a powder and forming a film of a material, preferably hydroxy propyl methyl cellulose, by vacuum or pressure differential, about the surface of the powder thus compacted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2005
    Publication date: December 1, 2005
    Inventors: Jason Teckoe, Colin Merwood, Michael Dann, Stephen Kessel, Ian Povey, Martin Good
  • Powder compaction and enrobing
    Publication number: 20050147710
    Abstract: An apparatus and method is disclosed for forming a compacted powder slug coated with a film. The powder, e.g. of a medicament, is compacted and enrobed to produce compacted powder slugs by preferably mechanically compacting a powder and forming a film of a material, preferably hydroxy propyl methyl cellulose, by vacuum or pressure differential, about the surface of the powder thus compacted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2004
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Inventors: Jason Teckoe, Colin Merwood, Michael Dann, Stephen Kessel, Ian Povey, Martin Good