Abstract: Biomedical devices such as contact lenses formed from a polymerization product of a mixture comprising an ethylenically unsaturated-containing non-amphiphilic macromonomer comprising hydrophilic units or hydrophobic units derived from a living radical polymerization of one or more ethylenically unsaturated hydrophilic monomers or one or more ethylenically unsaturated hydrophobic monomers are disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 16, 2009
Date of Patent:
December 27, 2011
Assignee:
Bausch & Lomb Incorporated
Inventors:
Jeffrey G. Linhardt, Jay F. Kunzler, Devon A. Shipp