Patents by Inventor DiCosmo Frank

DiCosmo Frank has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method of making anti-microbial polymeric surfaces
    Publication number: 20020161065
    Abstract: The present invention is a method for the modification of the surfaces of polymeric materials with polymer coatings that may be subsequently treated to be lubricious and anti-microbial. The method comprises incubating a photo-initiator-coated polymeric material with an aqueous monomer that is capable of free radical polymerization and exposing the incubating polymeric material to UV light creating a modified surface on said polymeric material. The method may additionally comprise adding a silver component to the modified surface. The silver component may be provided as a silver salt coating or a silver salt contained within a hydrogel bonded to the acrylate modified polymeric material surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2002
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventors: Valerio DiTizio, DiCosmo Frank