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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:
Jan. 16, 1990
Filed:
Jul. 28, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jacques-Pierre Moreau, Upton, MA (US);
Judith P Kitchell, Newton, MA (US);
Assignee:
Biomeasure, Inc., Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F / ; A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
424426 ; 424422 ; 424484 ; 424502 ; 427-2 ; 427-3 ;
Abstract
A therapeutic agent delivery system that includes a biodegradable polymer and a therapeutic agent, the delivery system being coated with a barrier substance that decreases the quantity of the agent released from the system, compared to the quantity of the agent released from a system not coated with the substance, in the forty-eight hours subsequent to the parenteral injection or implantation of the system into a living person or animal.