IP Library Granted Patent US 12,263,243
Granted Patent B2
US 12,263,243 · App. 12/371,573 · Granted Apr 1, 2025

Templated open flocs of anisotropic particles for enhanced pulmonary delivery

Inventors: Keith P. Johnston (Austin, TX); Joshua Engstrom (Spotswood, NJ); Jasmine Tam (Austin, TX); Robert O. Williams, III (Austin, TX); Alan B. Watts (Austin, TX)
Assignee: BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
A61K9/008A61K9/0075
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Patent No.
US 12,263,243
App. No.
12/371,573
Granted
Apr 1, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention includes compositions and methods for treating and delivering medicinal formulations using an inhaler. The composition includes a space filled flocculated suspension having one or more flocculated particles of one or more active agents and a hydrofluoroalkane propellant. A portion of the one or more flocculated particles is templated by the formation of hydrofluoroalkane droplets upon atomization and the templated floc compacts upon the evaporation of the hydrofluoroalkane propellant to form a porous particle for deep lung delivery.

Claims (7)

1. Flocculated pharmaceutically active starting drug particles (“starting floc drug particles”), of one or more drugs, the starting floc drug particles having aerodynamic diameters that have not been pre-formed, the starting floc drug particles being positioned in a dry powder inhaler (dpi) having one or more particle exit orifices, the starting floc drug particles being anisotropic and asymmetric such that when the dpi is actuated, the starting floc drug particles pass through the one or more exit orifices of the dpi and into patient air ways, the starting floc drug particles will break up and produce smaller floc drug particles having aerodynamic diameters that are of a size appropriate for deep lung delivery ranging between 1 and 5 microns.

2. The flocculated starting drug particles of claim 1 , wherein the starting floc drug particles have been prepared by dissolving the one or more drugs in a solvent to form a mixture of the drug and solvent, rapidly freezing the mixture on a cryogenically cooled surface and removing the solvent to thereby provide the starting floc drug particles.

3. The flocculated starting drug particles of claim 1 , wherein one or more of the drug(s) is/are an amorphous drug.

4. The flocculated starting drug particles of claim 1 , wherein one or more of the drug(s) is/are a crystalline drug.

5. The flocculated starting drug particles of claim 1 , wherein one or more of the drug(s) is an antifungal drug having one or more of azoles and/or allylamines.

6. The flocculated drug particles of claim 1 , wherein the one or more drugs are natamycin, flucytosine, miconazole, fluconazole, itraconazole, clotrimazole, econazole, ravuconazole, sulconazole, terconazole, tioconazole, fenticonazole, bifonazole, oxiconazole, ketoconazole, isoconazole, tolnaftate, amorolfine, terbinafine, voriconazol, or posaconazol, or pharmacologically acceptable organic and inorganic salts thereof.

7. The flocculated starting drug particles of claim 1 , wherein the one or more drugs comprise itraconazole.

Assignments (4)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 13, 2022
From: WATTS, ALAN B.
To: BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
Reel/Frame 059902/0371 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 15, 2015
From: WILLIAMS, ROBERT O., III
To: BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
Reel/Frame 036097/0510 →
CONFIRMATORY LICENSE Recorded Jul 1, 2014
From: THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
To: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Reel/Frame 033264/0250 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 28, 2009
From: JOHNSTON, KEITH P.; ENGSTROM, JOSHUA; TAM, JASMINE
To: BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
Reel/Frame 022608/0174 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 61028218 · Feb 13, 2008
Related Publication 20090208582A1 · Aug 20, 2009
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