Patents by Inventor Shozo Miyazaki

Shozo Miyazaki 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).

  • Drug delivery system using galactoxyloglucan
    Patent number: 6245354
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical sustained release preparation prepared by using as a sustained release ingredient a partial degradation product of the galactose of a galactoxyloglucan and a method for sustained releasing of a drug thereby. In more detail, it relates to a pharmaceutical sustained release preparation, wherein the sustained release of a drug is effected by utilizing the thermally reversible gel characteristics of the galactose-partial degradation product, which is produced by partial removal of the galactose on the side-chain of a galactoxyloglucan with an enzyme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2001
    Assignee: Dainippon Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shozo Miyazaki, Mayumi Shirakawa, Kazuhiko Yamatoya