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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2014
3m Innovative Properties Company, Saint Paul, MN (US);
Robin E. Wright, Inver Grove Heights, MN (US);
Stephen E. Krampe, Maplewood, MN (US);
Richard L. Walter, Saint Paul, MN (US);
Caroline M. Ylitalo, Stillwater, MN (US);
William A. Eibner, Saint Paul, MN (US);
Jeffrey H. Tokie, Scandia, MN (US);
Matthew T. Scholz, Woodbury, MN (US);
3M Innovative Properties Company, Saint Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure describes articles, such as medical articles, containing a substrate having disposed thereon a hydrophilic gel material (e.g., a shaped hydrophilic gel material or a coating of a hydrophilic gel material) and methods for making such articles. Methods are provided for making hydrophilic gel materials from a precursor composition that contains a polar solvent and a polymerizable material that is miscible with the polar solvent.