JOHN DENNIS FLANAGAN
Pharmacy in Branchburg, NJ

6395298, May 28, 2002

Sep 24, 1999

09/308043

John Flanagan - Neshanic Station NJ
George Colegrove - San Diego CA
Thierry Nivaggioli - San Francisco CA

Pharmacia Corporation - St. Louis MO

A61K 934

424479, 424481, 424493, 424496, 427 223

A tablet coating comprising gellan gum is disclosed along with a process which comprises admixing gellan gum and water under effective shear conditions to prepare an aqueous gellan gum coating composition thereof whereby the aqueous gellan gum coating composition is applied in an adherent fashion to a placebo or a tablet containing a pharmaceutical to form a gellan gum coated placebo or gellan gum coated active drug.

6627225, Sep 30, 2003

Apr 30, 2002

10/134755

John Flanagan - Neshanic Station NJ
George Colegrove - San Diego CA
Thierry Nivaggioli - San Francisco CA

Pharmacia Corporation - Peapack NJ

A61K 934

424481, 424479

A pharmaceutical composition comprising a tablet having a dried coating thereon, wherein the composition has a total weight of about 100 mg to about 1. 5 g, the dried coating comprises about 0. 025% to about 10% by weight of the total composition, and gellan gum is the principal component of the dried coating.

6485747, Nov 26, 2002

Oct 11, 1999

09/416181

John Flanagan - Neshanic Station NJ
Terry L. Smith - Pottstown PA
Aaron Barkley - Willow Grove PA
Richard E. Nicholson - Birdsboro PA
Timothy Patrick Callahan - Malvern PA

Monsanto Company - St. Louis MO

A61K 934

424479, 424481, 514777

A tablet coating useful for coating an active selected from the group consisting of aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxin sodium, acetaminophen, celecoxib, sildenafil citrate, alendronate sodium, an analgesic in combination with one or more of an antitussive, antihistamine, decongestant and expectorant, oxaprozin, comprising gellan gum along with a process which comprises admixing gellan gum and water under effective shear conditions to prepare an aqueous gellan gum coating composition thereof whereby the aqueous gellan gum coating composition is applied in an adherent fashion to a placebo or a tablet containing an active to form a gellan gum coated placebo or gellan gum coated active.

6635282, Oct 21, 2003

May 12, 2000

09/570025

John Flanagan - Neshanic Station NJ
George Colegrove - San Diego CA
Thierry Nivaggioli - San Francisco CA

Pharmacia Corporation - St. Louis MO

A61K 934

424479, 424481

A film coated tablet wherein the tablet is film coated with a gellan gum coating composition containing gellan gum, a plasticizer, and a disintegration aid. Optionally a slip enhancer is added to the composition. A method for coating a tablet with the gellan gum composition wherein the composition is applied as a solution. A method of administering the gellan gum film coated tablet as a pharmaceutical.

6453608, Sep 24, 2002

Apr 29, 1999

09/301988

John Flanagan - Neshanic Station NJ
Helen Anderson - St. Charles MO
Frank Miskiel - San Diego CA

Monsanto Company - St. Louis MO

A01C 106

47 576

A seed coating comprising gellan gum is disclosed along with a process which comprises admixing gellan gum and water under effective shear conditions to prepare an aqueous gellan gum coating composition thereof whereby the aqueous gellan gum coating composition may be applied in an adherent fashion to a seed to form a gellan gum coated seed. A gellan gum seed coating composition may indicate one or more bioactive(s) and optionally one or more colors.

2004003, Feb 19, 2004

Aug 11, 2003

10/637546

John Flanagan - Neshanic Station NJ, US
George Colegrove - San Diego CA, US
Thierry Nivaggioli - San Francisco CA, US

Pharmacia Corporation - St. Louis MO

A61K009/20

424/465000

A film coated tablet wherein the tablet is film coated with a gellan gum coating composition containing gellan gum, a plasticizer, and a disintegration aid. Optionally a slip enhancer is added to the composition. A method for coating a tablet with the gellan gum composition wherein the composition is applied as a solution. A method of administering the gellan gum film coated tablet as a pharmaceutical.

6326028, Dec 4, 2001

Oct 30, 1998

9/183238

Thierry Nivaggioli - San Francisco CA
George Colegrove - San Diego CA
John Flanagan - Neshanic Station NJ

Monsanto Company - St. Louis MO

A61K 928, A61K 934, A61K 936

424481

This invention relates to coatings employed to coat medicinal tablets. Such tablets include but are not limited to small pellet(s) of medication to be taken orally. In particular this invention relates to the use of alginates and/or gellan gum, mixtures thereof and the like as tablet coatings. More in particular, this invention relates to the use of alginate and gellan gum as tablet coatings for tablets which are useful for humans including coating(s) on medicinal tablets and to a process for making such coatings.