Patents Assigned to Nitrosci Pharmaceuticals LLC
  • Nitric oxide-releasing nitroso compositions and methods and intravascular devices for using them to prevent restenosis
    Patent number: 5665077
    Abstract: A surface of a foreign body exposed to the flowing blood of a living being which normally would promote the aggregation of platelets in that blood to form a coating firmly affixed to that surface and thus restrict the flow of blood past that surface or to form a blood clot detachable from that surface which when detached could trigger a stroke, heart attack or partial loss of lung function, such as plastic tubing, a balloon or the end of a catheter surgically inserted in a blood vessel or a stem implanted therein, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Assignee: Nitrosci Pharmaceuticals LLC
    Inventors: Gerald M. Rosen, William R. Herzog, Jr., Sovitj Pou