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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2008
Liliana L. Atanasoska, Edina, MN (US);
Shankar Godavarti, St. Paul, MN (US);
Michael S. Arney, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Joseph T. Delaney, Jr., Jena, DE;
Liliana L. Atanasoska, Edina, MN (US);
Shankar Godavarti, St. Paul, MN (US);
Michael S. Arney, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Joseph T. Delaney, Jr., Jena, DE;
Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US);
Abstract
Coating compositions and coatings for medical devices formed from the coating compositions that include a catalyst in a support polymer, where the support polymer helps to support and retain the catalyst in the coating on the medical device. The catalyst in the support polymer can act to chemically bond specific compounds migrating from a body of the medical device formed from a polymer to at least one of the polymer and/or other specific compounds migrating from the body of the medical device.