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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 1988
Filed:
Oct. 17, 1985
Applicant:
Inventor:
Roshan Maini, Bridge of Weir, GB;
Assignee:
Vascutek Limited, Ayr, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
623-1 ; 623 66 ; 530354 ;
Abstract
A method of producing a vascular graft comprises impregnating a tube of flexible porous material with gelatinous material which contains a gelatin with has been treated to cause it to contain a predetermined number of amino groups less than that normally present in untreated gelatin then treating the impregnated tube to cause the amino groups to form cross links with one another. The gelatin may be treated by reacting it with the anhydride or the chloride of a polycarboxylic acid.