Patent ID: 7988996

Claim:
A taller-than-wide pharmaceutical tablet having a height and width wherein the height exceeds the width of said tablet, said height being measured vertically from the top to the bottom of said tablet while it is in the tablet die in which it is fully compressed, after said compression has been completed, and said width being measured as the greatest horizontal dimension of the tablet at a location halfway between said top and said bottom of said tablet, except that when the horizontal cross-section of said tablet is substantially rectangular, the width is defined by locating the two shorter sides of the perimeter of said horizontal cross-section, and measuring the length of a line that is at right angle to said shorter sides, said taller-than-wide tablet comprising a plurality of layers compressed to form a segmented tablet comprising at least two active segments each comprising at least one active pharmaceutical ingredient, and an inactive segment between said at least two active segments, said inactive segment thereby forming a breaking segment which can be broken through to divide the tablet into discrete portions, each portion containing an intact active segment.