US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Oct. 21 for "Metal oxide encapsulated drug compositions and methods of preparing the same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,132, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Metal oxide encapsulated drug compositions and methods of preparing the same" was invented by Colin C. Neikirk (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jonathan Frankel (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing a pharmaceutical composition having a drug-containing core enclosed by one or more metal oxide materials is provided. The method includes the sequential steps of (a) loading the particles comprising the drug into a reactor, (b) applying a vaporous or gaseous metal precursor to the particles in the reactor, (c) performing one...