METHOD FOR CUSTOMIZED DISPENSING OF VARIABLE DOSE DRUG COMBINATION PRODUCTS FOR INDIVIDUALIZING OF THERAPIES

• US 20090149507A1
• Filed: 11/18/2005
• Published: 06/11/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline LLC (GlaxoSmithKline PLC)
• Original Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline LLC (GlaxoSmithKline PLC)
• Inventors: Martini, Luigi, Glinecke, Robert, Finkelmeier, Steven D., Kirsh, Richard L.
• Granted Patent: US 8,022,032 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 514/342
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 33/30 Dietetic or nutritional methods, e.g. for losing weight A23L33/10 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 45/06 Mixtures of active ingredients without chemical characterisation, e.g. antiphlogistics and cardiaca
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 9/2072 characterised by shape, structure or size; Tablets with holes, special break lines or identification marks; Partially coated tablets; Disintegrating flat shaped forms A61K9/0004, A61K9/0056, A61K9/0065 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 9/209 containing drug in at least two layers or in the core and in at least one outer layer
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 9/2095 Tabletting processes; Dosage units made by direct compression of powders or specially processed granules, by eliminating solvents, by melt-extrusion, by injection molding, by 3D printing mechanical aspects A61J3/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 3/10 for hyperglycaemia, e.g. antidiabetics
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 90/10 Information and communication technologies [ICT] supporting adaptation to climate change, e.g. for weather forecasting or climate simulation

Abstract

The method set out herein involves identifying the concentration of each of two or more active therapeutics tailored to treat a particular patient'"'"'s unique metabolism and one or more diseases, communicating that information to a producer who has multiple fixed or variable concentrations of each active available, where the producer then combines the individual concentrations of each active into single units such as a tablets or pills, and distributes those indirectly or directly to the patient.

Claims

1. A method for providing custom drug and nutritional therapies for preventing or treating diseases comprising at least two or more of the following steps, the steps comprising:

g) manufacturing or providing a series of drug or nutritional formulations in physical forms which can be combined into a final preparation and which have varying concentrations of said drug or nutritional supplement;

h) stockpiling these formulations with a group which has the capacity to combine the physical forms into a finished product;

i) identifying two or more drugs and/or nutritional supplements and the concentration from the series tailored to treat a particular patient'"'"'s requirement(s);

j) communicating that information to the group stockpiling said formulations;

k) wherein the group combines the physical forms of the identified drugs and/or supplements into single units, and

l) distributing said single units indirectly or directly to the patient.

2. A method for providing custom drug and nutritional therapies for preventing or treating diseases comprising at least two or more of the following steps, the steps comprising:

g) manufacturing or providing a series of drug or nutritional formulations in physical forms which can be combined into a final preparation and which have varying concentrations of said drug or nutritional supplement;

h) stockpiling these formulations;

i) identifying two or more drugs and/or nutritional supplements and the concentration from the series tailored to treat a particular patient'"'"'s requirement(s);

j) communicating that information to the group stockpiling said series of formulations;

k) supplying the identified series of formulations to a second group which can combine the physical forms into a final preparation; and

l) distributing said single units indirectly or directly to the patient.