Michael Bates

US Patent:

20040208832, Oct 21, 2004

Filed:

Apr 20, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/493191

Inventors:

Michael Bates - Belle Mead NJ, US

International Classification:

A61K038/28
A61L009/04
A61K009/14

US Classification:

424/046000, 514/003000, 514/012000

Abstract:

Color-coded pulmonarily administrable therapy units () of medicine and a method for delivery. In one form of the invention, a pulmonarily administrable therapy unit () includes a disposable container () and a dry powder () held within the disposable container (), which dry powder () includes a therapeutic agent. The disposable container () is insertable into an inhaler () and openable by operation of that inhaler () to allow therapeutic agent to escape from the disposable container () for inhalation. The disposable container () has a color-coding () that represents a total quantity of the therapeutic agent within the disposable container (). The invention also encompasses a dosing system for pulmonary delivery via an inhaler () of a therapeutic agent, including first and second therapy units () separately loadable into an inhaler () and each holding a different quantity of a protein or peptide therapeutic agent. The first and second therapy units () are differently color-coded (), which color-codings () represent the different total quantities of therapeutic agent of the units ().