Patents by Inventor George Colegrove

George Colegrove 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).

  • Gellan gum tablet film coating
    Publication number: 20040033261
    Abstract: A film coated tablet wherein the tablet is film coated with a gellan gum coating composition containing gellan gum, a plasticizer, and a disintegration aid. Optionally a slip enhancer is added to the composition. A method for coating a tablet with the gellan gum composition wherein the composition is applied as a solution. A method of administering the gellan gum film coated tablet as a pharmaceutical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2003
    Publication date: February 19, 2004
    Applicant: Pharmacia Corporation
    Inventors: John Flanagan, George Colegrove, Thierry Nivaggioli
  • Gellan gum tablet film coating
    Patent number: 6635282
    Abstract: A film coated tablet wherein the tablet is film coated with a gellan gum coating composition containing gellan gum, a plasticizer, and a disintegration aid. Optionally a slip enhancer is added to the composition. A method for coating a tablet with the gellan gum composition wherein the composition is applied as a solution. A method of administering the gellan gum film coated tablet as a pharmaceutical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2003
    Assignee: Pharmacia Corporation
    Inventors: John Flanagan, George Colegrove, Thierry Nivaggioli
  • Gellan gum tablet coating
    Patent number: 6627225
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition comprising a tablet having a dried coating thereon, wherein the composition has a total weight of about 100 mg to about 1.5 g, the dried coating comprises about 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: Pharmacia Corporation
    Inventors: John Flanagan, George Colegrove, Thierry Nivaggioli
  • Gellan gum tablet coating
    Publication number: 20020176890
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition comprising a tablet having a dried coating thereon, wherein the composition has a total weight of about 100 mg to about 1.5 g, the dried coating comprises about 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2002
    Publication date: November 28, 2002
    Applicant: Pharmacia Corporation
    Inventors: John Flanagan, George Colegrove, Thierry Nivaggioli
  • Gellan gum tablet coating
    Patent number: 6395298
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: Pharmacia Corporation
    Inventors: John Flanagan, George Colegrove, Thierry Nivaggioli
  • Alginate and gellan gum as tablet coating
    Patent number: 6326028
    Abstract: This invention relates to coatings employed to coat medicinal tablets. Such tablets include but are not limited to small pellet(s) of medication to be taken orally. In particular this invention relates to the use of alginates and/or gellan gum, mixtures thereof and the like as tablet coatings. More in particular, this invention relates to the use of alginate and gellan gum as tablet coatings for tablets which are useful for humans including coating(s) on medicinal tablets and to a process for making such coatings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Monsanto Company
    Inventors: Thierry Nivaggioli, George Colegrove, John Flanagan
  • Sustained release tablets containing alginate
    Patent number: 5368862
    Abstract: Sustained release tablet comprising a microbially produced alginate-type polysaccharide and an active ingredient to be delivered in controlled fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1994
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventor: George Colegrove