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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2005
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2003
Applicant:
Pallassana V. Narayanan, Belle Mead, NJ (US);
Inventor:
Pallassana V. Narayanan, Belle Mead, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Cordis Corporation, Miami Lakes, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B05D001/18 ; A61L027/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Medical devices, and in particular implantable medical devices, may be coated to minimize or substantially eliminate a biological organism's reaction to the introduction of the medical device to the organism or to treat a particular condition. A dip coating process is utilized to minimize waste. An aqueous latex polymeric emulsion is utilized to coat any medical device to a desired thickness by allowing for successive dipping and drying cycles. In addition, aqueous latex polymeric emulsions pose less of a chance of the bridging phenomenon associated with organic solvent based polymers.