Patents Assigned to BioEngineered Materials, Inc.
  • Interfacial coatings
    Patent number: 5863650
    Abstract: An biologically compatible coating, enables an apparatus to which it is applied to resist to cell adhesion and/or protein adsorption. The coating comprises a polyacrylamide network grafted to a surface of the apparatus at polymerization sites on that surface and a poly(ethylene glycol) network interpenetrating the polyacrylamide network, and is prepared by sequentially polymerizing the polyacrylamide and poly(ethylene glycol) layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: BioEngineered Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin E. Healy, Jane P. Bearinger