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US 11,446,407 B2Granted
Adhesive-containing wound closure device and method
AssigneeEthicon, Inc.
InventorsJerry Y. Jonn, Julian Quintero, Glenn Hoskin
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Abstract
An article, such as a tissue bonding article, includes a flexible material, a polymerization initiator or rate modifier disposed in or on the flexible material, and a polymerizable adhesive composition permeated throughout at least a portion of the flexible material, where the polymerization initiator or rate modifier is a polymerization initiator or rate modifier for the polymerizable adhesive composition.
Claims10
A method of bonding, comprising:
- placing a flexible material over a substrate, wherein a polymerization initiator or rate modifier disposed in or on said flexible material;
- applying a polymerizable adhesive composition over and substantially covering at least a portion of the flexible material;
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- allowing the polymerizable adhesive composition to permeate into and under the flexible material and polymerize to form a composite structure bonded to said substrate.
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