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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2004
Patrick Hanley, Barna, IE;
Finbar Dolan, Moate, IE;
Clement Higginbotham, Athlone, IE;
Morgan Tierney, Ferbane, IE;
Patrick Hanley, Barna, IE;
Finbar Dolan, Moate, IE;
Clement Higginbotham, Athlone, IE;
Morgan Tierney, Ferbane, IE;
Medtronic Vascular, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Abstract
A coating formulation for a substrate having abstractable hydrogen radicals is disclosed. The formulation includes a hydrophilic polymeric component comprising at least two polymeric species of differing molecular weights, an unsaturated hydrophilic monomer capable of free-radical polymerisation in the presence of a radical and a UV activatable compound capable of abstracting hydrogen radicals from the surface to be coated and from a polymeric specie of the hydrophilic polymeric component so as to initiate and promote the cross-linkage of the monomer to the surface and of the monomer or a propagating monomer chain to a polymeric specie of the polymeric component, and a suitable solvent to give the formulation a desired viscosity.