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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:
Feb. 29, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 01, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Angelo G Scopelianos, Whitehouse Station, NJ (US);
Rao S Bezwada, Whitehouse Station, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Ethicon, Inc., Somerville, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B05D / ; A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
523105 ; 524599 ; 528354 ; 606231 ; 427-231 ;
Abstract
The present claims are directed to a tipped surgical suture and a solventless method for making a tipped suture comprising a suture coated with 6-30 weight percent, based on the total weight of the tipped region of the suture, of a bioresorbable aliphatic polyester copolymer which itself comprises from 70-100 mole % of e-caprolactone repeating units or from 80-100 mole % of trimethylene carbonate repeating units, the remainder of repeating units in the copolymer comprising a plurality of lactide, 1,4-dioxan-2-one, 1,4-dioxepan-2-one units.