Scored For Dosage Control Patents (Class D24/103)
  • Method of administering a partial dose of a segmented pharmaceutical tablet
    Patent number: 7713547
    Abstract: A drug-containing pharmaceutical tablet adapted for accurate breaking which has two or more segments with at least one segment containing a drug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Accu-Break Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence Solomon, Allan S. Kaplan
  • Exactly divisible tablet
    Patent number: 6692765
    Abstract: The invention describes a tablet with two end faces and a circumferential face, in which the mutually opposite end faces of the tablet a) overall are nonplanar and are arranged at least approximately parallel to one another, and b) are each provided with a score on the top and bottom sides, the scores lying in the center of the tablet parallel to and above one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Abbott GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Reinhard Spengler
  • Pharmaceutical tablet designed for easier breaking
    Patent number: 6161260
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical tablet, with a break line aligned along a long dimension of the tablet, such that a twisting action, in which parts of the tablets on opposite sides if the break line are subjected to a rotational twisting force in respectively opposite senses, causes the tablet to break into two or more parts. The tablet is of the type which may be broken into two or more parts in order to ease swallowing or to allow administration of a partial dose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2000
    Inventor: Harry Flewitt
  • Elongated, divisible tablet
    Patent number: 5562920
    Abstract: Elongated, divisible tablet especially for pharmaceutical applications which, when the underside of the tablet is rested on a flat support, touches the support with two zones protruding from both ends of the underside of the tablet but not with the intervening zone wherein the protruding zones are formed as bulges. Such a tablet can be easily divided into two halves with one hand and picked up from a support. In addition it is easily manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1996
    Assignee: Boehringer Manheim GmbH
    Inventors: Fritz Demmer, Rolf-Dieter Gabel, Walter Preis
  • Tablet
    Patent number: D440650
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: William Crawford Hite, Nilesh H. Parikh, Masihuddin Ahmed Jaigirdar
  • Trapezoidal tablet
    Patent number: D535391
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Assignee: Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company
    Inventors: Barbara Z. Stawski, Thomas M. Mindak, Ingo C. Theurer, Philip Mark Soukup, Stefan Johannes Brehm
  • Tablet
    Patent number: D323388
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1992
    Assignee: Akzo N.V.
    Inventor: John W. Becker
  • Tablet
    Patent number: D626214
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Abbott GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Reinhard Spengler
  • Tablet
    Patent number: D356375
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1995
    Assignee: Warner-Lambert Company
    Inventors: Kevin S. McGuffy, Thomas Mathai
  • Breakable tablet
    Patent number: D361837
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1995
    Assignee: Solvay-Duphar B.V.
    Inventor: Stijn Swinkels
  • Pharmaceutical tablet
    Patent number: D636865
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: KVK-Tech, Inc.
    Inventor: Kalyan Vepuri
  • Pharmaceutical tablet
    Patent number: D372082
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignee: SmithKline Beecham Corporation
    Inventor: Joseph P. Sauer
  • Pharmaceutical tablet
    Patent number: D373187
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1996
    Assignee: The Boots Company PLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Dickinson, Karrar A. Khan
  • Pharmaceutical tablet
    Patent number: D376644
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1996
    Assignee: The Boots Company plc
    Inventors: Jeffrey Dickinson, Karrar A. Khan
  • Tablet
    Patent number: D641863
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Abbott GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Reinhard Spengler
  • Tablet
    Patent number: D641864
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Abbott GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Reinhard Spengler
  • Pharmaceutical tablet
    Patent number: D383533
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Assignee: SmithKline Beecham Corporation
    Inventors: John Michael Jushchyshyn, Ricky Holland
  • Pharmaceutical tablet
    Patent number: D383534
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Assignee: SmithKline Beecham Corporation
    Inventors: John Michael Jushchyshyn, Ricky Holland
  • Tablet
    Patent number: D383535
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Assignee: Schering Corporation
    Inventors: Jones W. Bryan, Jr., Robert T. Benz
  • Vitamin tablet
    Patent number: D384410
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1997
    Assignee: Amway Corporation
    Inventors: Michael K. Hessom, Tresa D. Sue
  • Dental floss dispenser
    Patent number: D387492
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1997
    Inventor: Lisa A. Hester
  • Ice cream confection
    Patent number: D387535
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: Good Humor-Breyers Ice Cream, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Gerhild Neuhann
  • Pressed coffee tablet
    Patent number: D389635
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Assignee: Kraft Foods, Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas Charles Henderson
  • Vitamin tablet
    Patent number: D424686
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Amway Corporation
    Inventor: Thanh Kevin Lam
  • Tablet
    Patent number: D669573
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takanori Inoue
  • Tablet
    Patent number: D672029
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takanori Inoue
  • Tablet
    Patent number: D672030
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takanori Inoue
  • Six sided pharmaceutical tablet
    Patent number: D434492
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2000
    Assignee: SmithKline Beecham Corporation
    Inventors: Ricky Holland, Albert Stephen Kearney
  • Enclosure for an air supply component for a portable hemodialysis system
    Patent number: D698437
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: DEKA Products Limited Partnership
    Inventors: David E. Collins, Kevin L. Grant, Jason A. Demers, Jared Nicholas Farlow, Keith D. Violette
  • Pharmaceutical tablet
    Patent number: D700315
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Hanmi Pharm. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Ho Kim, Ki Boong Lee
  • Beverage carbonation tablet
    Patent number: D711621
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Bonne O Inc.
    Inventor: Darren Hatherell
  • Enclosure for a portable hemodialysis system
    Patent number: D754322
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: DEKA Products Limited Partnership
    Inventors: David E. Collins, Jared Nicholas Farlow, Katherine M. Morgan, Kevin L. Grant, James D. Dale, Jason A. Demers, Arun D. Chawan
  • Dietary supplement
    Patent number: D941458
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Nutramax Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Adams, David Griffin, Hubert Ratkowski