Steven J Yoder

Address:

6352 Larch Cir, Macungie, PA 18062

Phone:

6109651650

VIN:

1GTJTCDE9A8146175

Make:

GMC

Model:

CANYON

Year:

2010

US Patent:

7827911, Nov 9, 2010

Filed:

Sep 22, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/534361

Inventors:

Frederick R. Kettinger - Norristown PA, US
Steven L. Yoder - Skippack PA, US
Joseph D. Drost - Wales PA, US

Assignee:

BPSI Holdings, Inc. - Wilmington DE

International Classification:

B41M 1/10

US Classification:

101170, 101163

Abstract:

Method for printing on a pharmaceutical tablet by etching a printing plate to form a pattern of etchings therein within an area corresponding to an outline of the tablet, varying the ink-retaining volumes of the etchings in a pre-determined manner and in a direction across the etching pattern from one side to an opposite side, placing ink into the etchings, and transferring ink from the etchings in the etched printing plate onto an outer surface of the tablet. Variations in the ink-retaining volumes of the etchings cause a larger amount of ink to be transferred from etchings having a larger ink-retaining volume than from etchings having a smaller ink-retaining volume during the ink transfer stage. This causes different changes in the color of the outer surface of the tablet dependent on the amount of ink being transferred.

US Patent:

20070026064, Feb 1, 2007

Filed:

Jul 28, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/495378

Inventors:

Steven Yoder - Skippack PA, US
Brian Korchok - Schwenksville PA, US
Frederick Kettinger - Norristown PA, US

International Classification:

A61K 9/28
A61K 9/20
B05D 3/02

US Classification:

424464000, 427002140

Abstract:

Oral solid dosage forms having holographic markings or identification marks such as a watermark thereon and methods of preparing the same are disclosed. One preferred method of applying an identification mark on a pharmaceutical dosage form described herein includes applying a film coating having a first color to an oral solid dosage form such as a tabet and thereafter applying an identification mark to the film coated oral solid dosage form using an ink which not only contains a pearlescent pigment therein but also has a second color which is substantially similar in color to the first color used for film coating.

US Patent:

20100303735, Dec 2, 2010

Filed:

Aug 14, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/682872

Inventors:

Steven L. Yoder - Skippack PA, US
Frederick R. Kettinger - Norristown PA, US
Marc Dolbier - Ottsville PA, US

Assignee:

BPSI HOLDINGS, LLC. - Wilmington DE

International Classification:

A61K 9/44
C08J 7/18
C23C 16/52
B29C 35/08

US Classification:

424 102, 427554, 427 8, 264400

Abstract:

Methods and arrangements for forming a color gradient on a pharmaceutical dosage forms such as tablets are disclosed. In preferred aspects of the invention, a coating layer is applied to a tablet core so that the coating layer is different from the color of the tablet core. The coating layer is etched by one or more lasers to remove selected portions thereof and reveal the core. Removal of selected portions of the coating layer, while other portions remain unetched by the laser(s), causes a variation in the color of the coating layer. The color of the tablet core may be visible at locations at which portions of the coating layer have been entirely removed while the color of the coating layer, i.e., the color of any of the color coatings thereof, is visible at locations at which portions of the coating layer have been only partially removed or not removed at all.