Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090168012 | COATING SOLUTIONS COMPRISING SEGMENTED INTERACTIVE BLOCK COPOLYMERS - This invention is directed toward surface treatment of a device. The surface treatment comprises the attachment of interactive segmented block copolymers to the surface of the substrate by means of interactive functionalities of the segmented block copolymer reacting with complementary surface functionalities in monomeric units along the polymer substrate. The present invention is also directed to a surface modified medical device, examples of which include contact lenses, intraocular lenses, vascular stents, phakic intraocular lenses, aphakic intraocular lenses, corneal implants, catheters, implants, and the like, comprising a surface made by such a method. | 07-02-2009 |
20100162661 | Packaging Solutions - Packaging systems for storing ophthalmic devices such as contact lenses and to methods for packaging such ophthalmic devices with solutions to improve the comfort of the lenses during wear are disclosed. A packaging system includes an ophthalmic device stored in an aqueous packaging solution comprising a brush copolymer comprising (a) monomeric units derived from an ethylenically unsaturated monomer containing one or more boronic acid moieties; and (b) monomeric units derived from an ethylenically unsaturated-containing hydrophilic macromonomer. | 07-01-2010 |
20100162663 | Packaging Solutions - Packaging systems for storing ophthalmic devices such as contact lenses and to methods for packaging such ophthalmic devices with solutions to improve the comfort of the lenses during wear are disclosed. | 07-01-2010 |
20100168356 | Biomedical Devices - Biomedical devices are provided herein which are formed from a polymerization product of a monomeric mixture comprising (a) a polymerizable monomer containing a boronic acid moiety and an electron withdrawing moiety; and (b) a biomedical device-forming comonomer. | 07-01-2010 |
20100168850 | Brush CoPolymers - Brush copolymers containing (a) monomeric units derived from an ethylenically unsaturated-containing monomer containing one or more boronic acid moieties; and (b) monomeric units derived from an ethylenically unsaturated-containing macromonomer having hydrophilic units and boronic acid units are disclosed. | 07-01-2010 |
20100168851 | Surface Modified Biomedical Devices - Disclosed are surface modified biomedical devices having a coating on a surface thereof, the coating comprising an inner layer comprising a polymer comprising monomeric units derived from an ethylenically unsaturated monomer containing a boronic acid moiety, and an outer layer comprising a hydrophilic hydrolyzed reactive polymer comprising monomeric units derived from an ethylenically unsaturated containing monomer having hydrolyzable reactive functionalities. | 07-01-2010 |
20100168852 | Brush Copolymers - Brush copolymers containing (a) monomeric units derived from an ethylenically unsaturated monomer containing one or more boronic acid moieties and; and (b) monomeric units derived from an ethylenically unsaturated-containing hydrophilic macromonomer are disclosed. | 07-01-2010 |
20100168855 | Method of Applying Renewable Polymeric Lens Coating - Disclosed are biomedical devices having a hydrophilic coating on a portion of a surface thereof, the biomedical device comprising: (a) a biomedical device obtained from a polymerization product of a monomeric mixture comprising (i) a polymerizable monomer containing a boronic acid moiety and an electron withdrawing moiety; and (ii) a biomedical device-forming comonomer; and (b) a hydrophilic reactive polymer having complementary reactive functionalities along the polymer chain, wherein the complementary reactive functionalities along the polymer chain of the hydrophilic reactive polymer of (b) bind with the boronic acid moieties of the biomedical device of (a), thereby producing a biocompatible coating which can be removed and re-applied to restore the surface properties of the biomedical device to substantially as-new condition. Methods for treating the biomedical device are also disclosed. | 07-01-2010 |
20130178936 | BRUSH COPOLYMERS - Brush copolymers containing (a) monomeric units derived from an ethylenically unsaturated-containing monomer containing one or more boronic acid moieties; and (b) monomeric units derived from an ethylenically unsaturated-containing macromonomer having hydrophilic units and boronic acid units are disclosed. | 07-11-2013 |