US Patent Issued to Impax Laboratories on Dec. 9 for "Muco-adhesive, controlled release formulation of levodopa and/or esters of levodopa and uses thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,164, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Impax Laboratories LLC (Bridgewater, N.J.).

"Muco-adhesive, controlled release formulation of levodopa and/or esters of levodopa and uses thereof" was invented by Ann Hsu (Hayward, Calif.), Liang Dong (Hayward, Calif.), Amy Ding (Hayward, Calif.) and Suneel Gupta (Hayward, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides an oral solid formulation comprising (a) a plurality of controlled release components comprising (i) a core comprising a mixture of levodopa and at least one pharmaceutically acceptable excipient, (ii) a controlled release coating surrounding the core, (iii) a muco-ad...