Patents Assigned to SPIRE BIOMEDICAL
  • MEDICAL DEVICE MADE OF EPTFE PARTIALLY COATED WITH AN ANTIMICROBIAL MATERIAL
    Publication number: 20130204355
    Abstract: A medical device includes a porous article of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) having a microstructure of nodes interconnected by fibrils, and a coating including an antimicrobial material at the surface of the porous article, wherein the microstructure at a surface of the porous article is only partially coated with the antimicrobial material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicants: SPIRE BIOMEDICAL, AESCULAP AG
    Inventors: Helmut Goldmann, Dennis Langanke, Richard W. Oliver