US Patent Issued to Amgen on March 18 for "Method of preventing lamellar silica formation in glass container" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,743, issued on March 18, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Method of preventing lamellar silica formation in glass container" was invented by Yasser Nashed-Samuel (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Jeremy Gastwirt (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of screening a glass container for storing a pharmaceutical formulation for susceptibility to lamellar silica formation includes filling the container with a buffer for the pharmaceutical formulation, storing the container with the buffer and optically analyzing the buffer after storage for one or more particles in the buffer. The one or more particl...