US Patent Issued on March 25 for "Compartmented hard shell capsule and apparatus and method for forming, filling, and encapsulating a compartmented hard shell capsule" (Canadian, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,349, issued on March 25.

"Compartmented hard shell capsule and apparatus and method for forming, filling, and encapsulating a compartmented hard shell capsule" was invented by Karl Wei Cao (Vancouver, Canada) and Hu Cao (Taiyuan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compartmented hard shell capsule for containing active formulations, and methods and apparatuses for forming, filling and encapsulating the compartmented hard shell capsules. The compartmented hard shell capsule includes a cap portion and a body portion. The cap portion has a hollow cavity defining a cap chamber. The body portion can be removably inserted into the cap ...