ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,043, issued on May 13, was assigned to Patheon Softgels Inc. (High Point, N.C.).

"Liquisoft capsules" was invented by Yinyan Zhao (Greensboro, N.C.), Yunhua Hu (Cary, N.C.), Mervin Williams Jr. (Jamestown, N.C.), Tatyana Dyakonov (Greensboro, N.C.), Saujanya Gosangari (Jamestown, N.C.), Chue Yang (Greensboro, N.C.), Henricus Marinus Gerardus Maria Van Duijnhoven (den Bosch, Netherlands), Martin Piest (Tilburg, Netherlands) and Aqeel A. Fatmi (High Point, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are oral pharmaceutical compositions suitable for chewing, sucking, or buccal dissolution comprising soft gel capsules and liquid...