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Process for the preparation of respirable particles

Patent 6221398 Issued on April 24, 2001. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject July 10, 2016. 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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Inventor: Violante, et al.

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Inventors

Assignee

Application

No. 669477 filed on 07/10/1996

US Classes:

424/489, Particulate form (e.g., powders, granules, beads, microcapsules, and pellets)424/499, Contains proteins or derivative or polysaccharides or derivative514/951POWDERS, GRANULES OR PARTICLES OF SPECIFIED MESH OR PARTICLE SIZE

Examiners

Primary: Page, Thurman K.
Assistant: Seidleck, Brian K.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Foreign Patent References

  • 0 169 618 A3 EP. 01/13/1986
  • 0 169 618 A2 EP. 01/13/1986
  • 90/03782 WO. 04/13/1990
  • 96/32095 WO. 10/13/1996

International Classes

A61K 009/14
A61K 009/16

Foreign Application Priority Data

1995-04-13 SE

Abstract

A process for producing a pharmaceutical powder for inhalation comprising crystalline particles of an inhalation compound, comprising dissolving an inhalation compound in a solvent; and introducing the solution containing the inhalation compound in droplet form or as a jet stream into an anti-solvent which is miscible with the solvent and which is under agitation.

Other References

  • Lewis W. Dittert, Ph.D., "An Introduction to Pharmaceutical Techniques and Dosage Forms", 1991, J.B. Lippincott Company, Seventh Edition, Taiwan
  • Herbert A. Lieberman et al., "Disperse Systems", 1988, Marcel Dekker, Inc., vol. I, New Yor
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