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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2002
Ahmed S. Abuelyaman, Woodbury, MN (US);
Scott A. Burton, Woodbury, MN (US);
Duane Fansler, Dresser, WI (US);
Babu N. Gaddam, Woodbury, MN (US);
Paul Hattam, Baldwin, WI (US);
Maureen A. Kavanagh, Stanchfield, MN (US);
Kevin M. Lewandowski, Inver Grove Heights, MN (US);
Peter M. Seiler, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Steven C. Stickels, Woodbury, MN (US);
Ahmed S. Abuelyaman, Woodbury, MN (US);
Scott A. Burton, Woodbury, MN (US);
Duane Fansler, Dresser, WI (US);
Babu N. Gaddam, Woodbury, MN (US);
Paul Hattam, Baldwin, WI (US);
Maureen A. Kavanagh, Stanchfield, MN (US);
Kevin M. Lewandowski, Inver Grove Heights, MN (US);
Peter M. Seiler, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Steven C. Stickels, Woodbury, MN (US);
3M Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
A gel material and medical articles including such material, wherein the transparent gel material includes a polymerized poly(alkylene oxide) macromonomer that, prior to polymerization, is free-radically polymerizable, multifunctional (preferably difunctional), and has an average molecular weight of at least about 2000.