Surface modified biomedical devices
AssigneeBausch & Lomb Incorporated
InventorsWeihong Lang, Yu-Chin Lai
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Abstract
A method for making a surface modified biomedical device is disclosed, the method comprising contacting a surface of a biomedical device with a copolymer which is the reaction product of one or more polymerizable polyhydric alcohols and one or more polymerizable fluorine-containing monomers.
Claims25
A method for making a surface modified biomedical device, the method comprising (a) providing a biomedical device having a plurality of biomedical device surface functional groups;
- and (b) attaching a copolymer which is the reaction product of one or more polymerizable polyhydric alcohols and one or more polymerizable fluorine-containing monomers to the surface of the biomedical device through the biomedical device surface functional groups.
A biomedical device comprising a bulk material having a plurality of biomedical device surface functional groups and a surface coating, in which the biomedical device is characterized by a copolymer attached to the surface of the biomedical device through the biomedical device surface functional groups, wherein the copolymer is the reaction product of one or more polymerizable polyhydric alcohols and one or more polymerizable fluorine-containing monomers.
A method for making a surface modified biomedical device, the method comprising contacting a surface of a biomedical device with a copolymer which is the reaction product of one or more polymerizable polyhydric alcohols and one or more polymerizable fluorine-containing monomers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.