US Patent Issued to Temple University-Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education on Nov. 4 for "Tamper-resistant drug dosage forms and methods of making and use thereof" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,601, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Temple University-Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Philadelphia).

"Tamper-resistant drug dosage forms and methods of making and use thereof" was invented by Reza A. Fassihi (Fort Washington, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tamper resistant drug dosage is described. The drug dosage form includes a matrix polymer, a scaffold polymer, and a therapeutic agent, and the porosity of the drug dosage form is less than 10%. Methods for making and using the tamper resistant drug dosage forms are described."

The patent was filed on Oct. 17, 2019, under Application No. 17/284,746.

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