Patents by Inventor Donald Monkhouse

Donald Monkhouse 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).

  • Publication number: 20070259010
    Abstract: Pharmaceutical dosage forms with external or internal features to complicate counterfeiting and support authentication are described. External features include surface texture, surface markings defined by patterns of physical or chemical markers, or complex interlocking shapes. Internal features also include physical or chemical markers in two or three-dimensional patterns observable after sectioning, or after breaking along designed fracture lines. Methods of manufacture using solid freeform fabrication (SFF) techniques such as three-dimensional printing (3DP) are described. Method of authentication using dosage form patterns and batch codes are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: APRECIA PHARMACEUTICALS CO.
    Inventors: Jae YOO, Henry SURPRENANT, Donald MONKHOUSE, Thomas WEST
  • Patent number: 7122057
    Abstract: An engineered regenerative biostructure (erb) for implantation into a human body as a bone substitute, which includes an internal microstructure, mesostructure and/or macrostructure to provide improved bone in-growth, and methods for making the erb. Under one aspect of the invention, the biostructure has resorbable and nonresorbable regions. Under another aspect of the invention, the biostructure is constructed of hydroxyapatite, tricalcium phosphate and/or demineralized bone. Under yet another aspect of the invention, the porous biostructure is partially or fully infused with a resorbable, nonresorbable or dissolvable material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Therics, LLC
    Inventors: Heather Ann Beam, Thomas J. Bradbury, Kathleen D. Chesmel, Christopher M. Gaylo, Alfred Anthony Litwak, Qing Liu, Peter Albert Materna, Donald Monkhouse, Jennifer Patterson, Timothy J. Pryor, Sunil Saini, Henry Leon Surprenant, Chen-Chao Wang, Thomas George West, Jaedeok Yoo
  • Publication number: 20060110443
    Abstract: A drug delivery device such as an oral dosage form (ODF) with a toxic or potent core encapsulated by a non-toxic region. The non-toxic region may be a region including multiple layers, coatings, shells, and combinations thereof, which provides protection to and isolation from the toxic or potent core. The drug in the toxic or potent core is incorporated into the dosage form via, for example, three-dimensional printing, as a solution, solubilization or suspension of solid particles in liquid, rather than by the more conventional handling and compressing of dry powder. This minimizes the likelihood of creating airborne particles of the toxic drug during manufacturing, hence controlling and minimizing the exposure of manufacturing personnel to the hazardous substance. Wet dispensing of the toxic or potent drug further provides greater bioavailability of the drug to the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2005
    Publication date: May 25, 2006
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Francis Payumo, Jill Sherwood, Donald Monkhouse, Jaedeok Yoo, Christopher Gaylo, Chen-Chao Wang, Michael Cima
  • Publication number: 20030114936
    Abstract: The devices disclosed herein are composite implantable devices having a gradient of one or more of the following: materials, macroarchitecture, microarchitecture, or mechanical properties, which can be used to select or promote attachment of specific cell types on and in the devices prior to and/or after implantation. In preferred embodiments, the implants include complex three-dimensional structure, including curved regions and saddle-shaped areas. In various embodiments, the gradient forms a transition zone in the device from a region composed of materials or having properties best suited for one type of tissue to a region composed of materials or having properties suited for a different type of tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2002
    Publication date: June 19, 2003
    Applicant: Therics, Inc.
    Inventors: Jill K. Sherwood, Donald Monkhouse, Christopher M. Gaylo
  • Publication number: 20030065400
    Abstract: An engineered regenerative biostructure (erb) for implantation into a human body as a bone substitute, which includes an internal microstructure, mesostructure and/or macrostructure to provide improved bone in-growth, and methods for making the erb. Under one aspect of the invention, the biostructure has resorbable and nonresorbable regions. Under another aspect of the invention, the biostructure is constructed of hydroxyapatite, tricalcium phosphate and/or demineralized bone. Under yet another aspect of the invention, the porous biostructure is partially or fully infused with a resorbable, nonresorbable or dissolvable material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Inventors: Heather Ann Beam, Thomas J. Bradbury, Kathleen D. Chesmel, Christopher M. Gaylo, Alfred Anthony Litwak, Qing Liu, Peter Albert Materna, Donald Monkhouse, Jennifer Patterson, Timothy J. Pryor, Sunil Saini, Henry Leon Surprenant, Chen-Chao Wang, Thomas George West, Jaedeok Yoo
  • Patent number: 6514518
    Abstract: Dosage forms prepared by solid free form fabrication (SFF) provide release of medicament in multiple phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Therics, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Monkhouse, Jaedeok Yoo, Jill K. Sherwood, Michael J. Cima, Esteban Bornancini
  • Publication number: 20020018816
    Abstract: Dosage forms prepared by solid free form fabrication (SFF) provide release of medicament in multiple phases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2001
    Publication date: February 14, 2002
    Inventors: Donald Monkhouse, Jaedeok Yoo, Jill K. Sherwood, Michael J. Cima, Esteban Bornancini
  • Patent number: 6280771
    Abstract: Dosage forms prepared by solid free form fabrication (SFF) provide release of medicament in multiple phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignees: Therics, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Donald Monkhouse, Jaedeok Yoo, Jill K. Sherwood, Michael J. Cima, Esteban Bornancini