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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:
Sep. 05, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 17, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Occidental Chemical Corporation, Dallas, TX (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
422 22 ;
Abstract
Disclosed is a method of preparing a sterile medical article. A poly(vinyl chloride) or polyvinylidene chloride polymer is produced that contains about 0.001 to about 5 wt % of a metal complex having at least one anionic ligand that has at least one resonance structure in which the charge is localized on a carbon atom. A medical article is fabricated from the chlorinated polymer and the medical article is exposed to gamma radiation.