US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on March 18 for "Devices and methods for the integrated filtration, drying, and mechanical processing of active pharmaceutical ingredients" (Massachusetts, Maryland, North Carolina, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,651, issued on March 18, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Devices and methods for the integrated filtration, drying, and mechanical processing of active pharmaceutical ingredients" was invented by David Brancazio (Cambridge, Mass.), Allan S. Myerson (Cambridge, Mass.), Mohammad A. Azad (Greensboro, N.C.), Gregory J. Hammersmith (Windsor, Conn.), Gerard Capellades Mendez (Cambridge, Mass.), Clemence Neurohr (Cambridge, Mass.), Kersten Rapp (Medway, Mass.) and Naomi Elizabeth Barbara Briggs (Rockville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for filtering, drying, and mechanical...