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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:
Jun. 07, 1988
Filed:
Apr. 11, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ralph S Greco, Princeton, NJ (US);
Richard A Harvey, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Stanley Z Trooskin, North Brunswick, NJ (US);
George Strauss, Piscataway, NJ (US);
Assignees:
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ (US);
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
427-2 ; 1283 / ; 623-1 ; 623 12 ; 623 11 ; 623 66 ; 521 30 ;
Abstract
There is disclosed an improved prosthesis coated, respectively, with an ionic surfactant, an antibiotic and/or antithrombiotic agent and treated with an immobilizing ionic exchange compound, to remove un-antibiotic bound ionic surfactant. The drug may be encapsulated within phospholipid vesicles which are bound to the prosthesis.