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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:
Dec. 06, 1994
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Russell D Jamison, Germantown, TN (US);
Larry H Strait, Jr, State College, PA (US);
Neal B Beals, Memphis, TN (US);
Stephen L Van Doren, Westminster, MD (US);
Michael E Marousek, Baltimore, MD (US);
Assignee:
Smith & Nephew Richards, Inc., Memphis, TN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F / ; A61F / ; A61F / ; A01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
623 16 ; 623 18 ; 623 11 ; 128898 ;
Abstract
A coated prosthetic implant and a method of forming a continuous coating of highly crystalline polymer over a prosthetic implant by means of passing particles of polymer through a high temperature plasma and subsequently depositing the molten particles over the implant surface. This invention is especially useful for coating polymer composite implants, such as a femoral insert for a hip joint prosthesis, with a coating of poly (aryl-ether-ketone).