George D Colegrove

US Patent:

6395298, May 28, 2002

Filed:

Sep 24, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/308043

Inventors:

John Flanagan - Neshanic Station NJ
George Colegrove - San Diego CA
Thierry Nivaggioli - San Francisco CA

Assignee:

Pharmacia Corporation - St. Louis MO

International Classification:

A61K 934

US Classification:

424479, 424481, 424493, 424496, 427 223

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.

US Patent:

6627225, Sep 30, 2003

Filed:

Apr 30, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/134755

Inventors:

John Flanagan - Neshanic Station NJ
George Colegrove - San Diego CA
Thierry Nivaggioli - San Francisco CA

Assignee:

Pharmacia Corporation - Peapack NJ

International Classification:

A61K 934

US Classification:

424481, 424479

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. 025% to about 10% by weight of the total composition, and gellan gum is the principal component of the dried coating.

US Patent:

6635282, Oct 21, 2003

Filed:

May 12, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/570025

Inventors:

John Flanagan - Neshanic Station NJ
George Colegrove - San Diego CA
Thierry Nivaggioli - San Francisco CA

Assignee:

Pharmacia Corporation - St. Louis MO

International Classification:

A61K 934

US Classification:

424479, 424481

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.

US Patent:

20040033261, Feb 19, 2004

Filed:

Aug 11, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/637546

Inventors:

John Flanagan - Neshanic Station NJ, US
George Colegrove - San Diego CA, US
Thierry Nivaggioli - San Francisco CA, US

Assignee:

Pharmacia Corporation - St. Louis MO

International Classification:

A61K009/20

US Classification:

424/465000

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.