MUMBAI, India, Oct. 31 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517093465 A) filed by Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, on Sept. 29, for 'cellulose powder and molded body.'

Inventor(s) include Tamari Kaede; Tsuru Kyosuke; Yoshida Ayumi; Maeda Kazuki; and Honda Yosuke.

The application for the patent was published on Oct. 31, under issue no. 44/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention provides: a cellulose powder which exhibits less variability in mass and has excellent hardness and friability while maintaining fine disintegratability, and from which a more small-sized molded body can be obtained without changing amounts of active ingredients of drug...