Amino acid stabilized medical aerosol formulation

Patent 6136294 Issued on October 24, 2000. Estimated Expiration Date:

September 22, 2018. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

Aeropharm Technology, Inc.

Application

No. 158369 filed on 09/22/1998

US Classes:

424/45, Organic pressurized fluid424/46, Powder or dust containing424/489Particulate form (e.g., powders, granules, beads, microcapsules, and pellets)

Examiners

Primary: Page, Thurman K.
Assistant: McQueeney, P. E.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Frommers Lawrence & Haug

Foreign Patent References

0518600 EP. 12/13/1992

International Class

A61L 009/04

Abstract

This invention relates to a medicinal aerosol formulation and more particularly, to a medicinal aerosol formulation containing a particulate drug, a propellant and a stabilizing agent selected from an amino acid, an amino acid derivative and a mixture of the foregoing.