Glass containers for storing pharmaceutical compositions

US12226370B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• CORNING INCORPORATED · US

Inventors

• Christie Leigh McCarthy · Riverside, US
• Sinue Gomez-Mower · Corning, US
• Weirong Jiang · Sarasota, US
• Joseph Michael Matusick · Corning, US
• Steven Edward DeMartino · Corning, US
• Connor Thomas O'Malley · Riverside, US
• John Stephen Peanasky · Big Flats, US
• Shivani Rao Polasani · Corning, US
• James Ernest Webb · Corning, US
• Michael Clement Ruotolo, Jr. · Corning, US
• Bryan James Musk · Williamstown, US
• Jared Seaman Aaldenberg · Corning, US
• Eric Lewis Allington · Campbell, US
• Douglas Miles Noni, Jr. · Horseheads, US
• Amber Leigh Tremper · Corning, US
• Kristen Dae Waight · Lindley, US
• Kevin Patrick McNelis · Elmira, US
• Patrick Joseph Cimo · Corning, US
• Christy Lynn Chapman · Riverside, US
• Robert Anthony Schaut · Corning, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 29, 2023
• Grant date: Feb 18, 2025
• Expiry date: May 18, 2043

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C03C17/32
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Disclosed herein are glass pharmaceutical vials having sidewalls of reduced thickness. In embodiments, the glass pharmaceutical vial may include a glass body comprising a sidewall enclosing an interior volume. An outer diameter D of the glass body is equal to a diameter d1 of a glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1, wherein X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1. However, the sidewall of the glass pharmaceutical vial comprises an average wall thickness Ti that is less than or equal to 0.85*s1, wherein s1 is a wall thickness of the glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1 and X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1.