ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,702, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to MannKind Corp. (Westlake Village, Calif.).
"Apparatus and method for cryogranulating a pharmaceutical composition" was invented by Edwin Amoro (West Haven, Conn.), Karel Vanackere (Knokke-Heist, Belgium) and Michael A. White (Brookfield, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cryogranulation systems with improved dispenser assemblies are provided for use in manufacturing frozen pellets of pharmaceutical substances in a fluid medium. Methods of cryogranulating the pharmaceutical substance in the fluid medium are also provided. In particular embodiments, the dispenser assembly is used with suspensi...