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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2014
Janssen Sciences Ireland Unlimited Company, Co Cork, IE;
Lieven Elvire Colette Baert, Bruges, BE;
Iksoo Chun, Princeton, NJ (US);
Guenter Kraus, Sint-Katelijne-Waver, BE;
Deborah M. Schachter, Edison, NJ (US);
Qiang Zhang, Annandale, NJ (US);
Janssen Sciences Ireland Unlimited Company, Co Cork, IE;
Abstract
A degradable, removable, pharmaceutical implant for the sustained release of one or more drugs in a subject, wherein the pharmaceutical implant is composed of a tube comprising an outer wall made of a degradable polymer completely surrounding a cavity, wherein the outer wall has a plurality of openings and wherein the cavity contains one or more sets of micro-particles, which micro-particles contain an active agent or a combination of two or more active agents, and wherein the size of the microparticles is selected such that the majority of the microparticles cannot pass through the openings.