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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert Edward Burrell, Sherwood Park, CA;
Aron Marcus Rosenfeld, Kingston, CA;
Assignee:
Nucryst Pharmaceuticals Corp., Fort Saskatchewan, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B05D 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B05D 3/00 ;
Abstract
A process for production of an actively antimicrobial surface for a substrate and for use in a biologically dynamic environment, such as for treating and preventing microbial infections, including a film consisting of at least an antimicrobial element and another electrochemically nobler element and which forms multitudinous galvanic cells with electrolyte-containing biological fluids, such as body fluids from wounds, etc., for releasing the antimicrobial element at the surface.