Patent ID: 8034380

Claim:
An immediate release compressed pharmaceutical tablet comprising two or more active segments and at least one inactive segment, said at least one inactive segment being between said active segments and serving as a breaking region to allow breaking only through said at least one inactive segment, said tablet further comprising a top and a bottom and having a height that 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 is 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, wherein said active segments each comprise one or more drugs.