US 12,337,067 B2
Oral medicine delivery capsule
Don S. Houtz, II, Elko, NV (US)
Filed by Don S. Houtz, II, Elko, NV (US)
Filed on Apr. 12, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/299,658.
Application 18/299,658 is a division of application No. 16/688,924, filed on Nov. 19, 2019, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/770,607, filed on Nov. 21, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0240996 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. A61K 9/48 (2006.01); A61K 9/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61K 9/4825 (2013.01) [A61K 9/0056 (2013.01); A61K 9/4808 (2013.01)] 2 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of delivering medicine to an oral cavity, the method comprising:
(a) a first step of encapsulating a medicine in a capsule having a shell which protects said medicine from being dissolved, said capsule also having an opening which is covered by a mesh which holds the medicine within the opening, and wherein said mesh resides on an inner wall of the shell or is anchored within the shell itself;
(b) a further step of positioning the capsule in an oral cavity, against a surface of said oral cavity; and
(c) maintaining the capsule on the surface of the oral cavity so that said medicine is absorbed by said surface.