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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:
Mar. 06, 1990
Filed:
May. 21, 1984
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert S Langer, Somerville, MA (US);
Howard Rosen, Montara, CA (US);
Robert J Linhardt, Iowa City, IA (US);
Kam Leong, Cambridge, MA (US);
Assignee:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M / ; A61F / ; A61F / ; C08G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
424428 ; 528271 ; 528206 ; 528207 ; 424 78 ; 424409 ; 424426 ; 424466 ; 424497 ; 6048911 ;
Abstract
A composition of matter suitable for implantation in the body to effect zero order drug release comprising a drug and a polymer of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R and R' can be the same or different and are hydrophobic organic linkages and n and m are integers of 1 or greater.