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US 9,067,001 B2Granted
Coatings for implantable medical devices
AssigneeAbbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc.
InventorsEugene T. Michal, Syed F. A. Hossainy, Ashok Shah
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Abstract
The present application teaches a coating having a biologically compatible compound conjugated to, or blended with, a polymer, wherein the polymer includes at least one olefin-derived unit and at least one unit derived from a vinyl alcohol, an allyl alcohol, or derivatives thereof.
Claims17
A coating for a medical device, wherein the coating includes:
- a modified polymer comprising a biologically compatible compound conjugated to a polymer, wherein the modified polymer is selected from the group consisting of
- wherein “m” and “n” are integers;
- wherein “p” is an integer selected such that the molecular weight of the poly(ethylene glycol) ranges from about 500 to about 30,000 Daltons.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.