Abstract: The invention disclosed provides an intra-vaginal device prepared using ingredients which slowly release in the vagina over a significant period of time. The present intra-vaginal device also usefully serves as a drug release means for controllably releasing a drug in the vagina. A method for controlled drug release in the vagina is also disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 11, 1990
Date of Patent:
December 3, 1991
Assignee:
MaxiMed Corporation
Inventors:
Robert S. Cohen, James M. Pierce, William H. Kinsey
Abstract: The invention disclosed provides an intra-vaginal device prepared using ingredients which slowly release in the vagina over a significant period of time. The present intra-vaginal device also usefully serves as a drug release means for controllably releasing a drug in the vagina. A method for controlled drug release in the vagina is also disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 14, 1988
Date of Patent:
January 8, 1991
Assignee:
MaxiMed Corporation
Inventors:
Robert S. Cohen, James M. Pierce, William H. Kinsey