ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,342, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CUBOPHARM PTY LTD (Karingal, Australia).
"Fast disintegrating tablet" was invented by David Kannar (Melbourne, Australia), Gregory Yu Foo Szto (Melbourne, Australia) and Tomer Madmon (Melbourne, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oral disintegrating tablet that forms liquid crystalline particles or liquid crystalline bulk phase upon disintegration. The oral disintegrating tablet is fast disintegrating following contact with saliva and/or the oral mucosa but also provides slowed delivery of the active ingredient to avoid the difficulties associated with the speed of delivery of an activ...