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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2015
Silver Bullet Therapeutics, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Houdin Dehnad, El Granada, CA (US);
Paul E. Chirico, Campbell, CA (US);
Bohdan Wolodymyr Chopko, Henderson, NV (US);
John Barr, San Diego, CA (US);
Robert Vincent McCormick, Saratoga, CA (US);
Julie Lucero, San Jose, CA (US);
Jason A. Jegge, San Jose, CA (US);
Silver Bullett Therapeutics, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Antimicrobial metal ion coatings. In particular, described herein are coatings including an anodic metal (e.g., silver and/or zinc and/or copper) that is co-deposited with a cathodic metal (e.g., palladium, platinum, gold, molybdenum, titanium, iridium, osmium, niobium or rhenium) on a substrate so that the anodic metal is galvanically released as antimicrobial ions when the apparatus is exposed to a bodily fluid. The anodic metal may be at least about 25 percent by volume of the coating, resulting in a network of anodic metal with less than 20% of the anodic metal in the coating fully encapsulated by cathodic metal.