US Patent Issued to Verily Life Sciences on July 8 for "Enteric coating for targeting the duodenum" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,380, issued on July 8, was assigned to Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas).

"Enteric coating for targeting the duodenum" was invented by Kimberly Kam (Orinda, Calif.), Martin Sheridan (Redwood City, Calif.) and Angela DiCiccio (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for targeted delivery of a medicament to the gastrointestinal tract (e.g., selectively to the duodenum) of a subject. The system includes a medicament, a mucoadhesive layer at least partially surrounding the medicament, and an enteric coating encasing the medicament and mucoadhesive layer. The enteric coating comprises a material degradable by a pH of the GI t...