Fig. 1. Design of a modular gastric residence vehicle.

(A) Schematic of deployment of gastric residence drug delivery dosage form via ingestible capsule. (B) Two families of geometric arrangements of flexible and rigid elements able to fit into a capsule and method of dissolution via fracture at designed failure points in presence of intestinal pH. Schematic enteric linkers, such as those evaluated in vitro (see fig. S3), are represented by black lines. (C) Stress distribution of the flexible element when it is folded into the capsule, generated with the finite element method. (D) Representative dosage form after assembly and loading into a 00el gelatin capsule. Linkers, such as those evaluated in vitro in fig. S3, are yellow and black.