Patents Examined by Hasan Ahemd
  • Patent number: 9072812
    Abstract: The present invention is related to scoring or cutting balloon catheters carrying at least on a portion of their surface at least one oxidation-insensitive drug or oxidation-insensitive polymer-free drug preparation and at least one lipophilic antioxidant at a ratio of 3-100% by weight of the at least one lipophilic antioxidant in relation to 100% by weight of the drug, wherein the at least one oxidation-insensitive drug is selected of taxanes, thalidomide, statins, corticoids and lipophilic derivatives of corticoids, and the at least one lipophilic antioxidant is selected of nordihydroguaiaretic acid, resveratrol and propyl gallate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: ANGIOSCORE, INC.
    Inventors: Ulrich Speck, Madeleine Caroline Berg