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US 11,998,654 B2Granted
Securing implants and medical devices
AssigneeBard Shannon Limited
InventorsGideon Sturlesi, Guy Tomer, Aurelie Benaddi, Mary Hainrichson, Amir Hadid, Ofer Yatziv
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Abstract
A biocompatible material for securing such implantable medical devices, for example by using an adhesive path.
Claims20
An implantable medical device
- having a patch affixed to only a portion of a surface of the implantable medical device but not covering an entirety of the surface of the implantable medical device, the patch able to secure the implantable medical device to a tissue,
- wherein the patch comprises an adhesive layer positioned to adhere the implantable medical device to the tissue and a non-adhesive backing layer covering the adhesive layer,
- wherein the adhesive layer comprises foamed and lyophilized biocompatible gelatin and transglutaminase.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.