US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Dec. 9 for "Low temperature silicon oxide coating for pharmaceutical applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,165, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Low temperature silicon oxide coating for pharmaceutical applications" was invented by Fei Wang (Fremont, Calif.) and Pravin K. Narwankar (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure pertains to coated drug compositions and methods of preparing coated drug compositions with a low temperature silicon oxide coating. Specifically, the instant application discloses a method to coat active pharmaceutical ingredient particles using a silicon precursor and a catalyst at a low temperature."

The patent was filed on Sept. 28, 2022, under ...