Patents by Inventor John W. Sheets

John W. Sheets 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).

  • Patent number: 4961954
    Abstract: Improved medical devices and instruments prepared by an improved method of producing hydrophilic, gamma irradiation induced polymerized and chemically grafted coatings or plastic surfaces of articles adapted for contacting living tissue, the improvement comprising carrying out the graft polymerization in an aqueous solution under specific combinations of the following conditions:(1) monomer concentration in the range of from about 0.5% to about 50%, by weight;(2) total gamma dose in the range of from about 0.01 to less than about 0.50 Mrad;(3) gamma dose rate in the range of from about 10 to about 2500 rads/min; and(4) maintaining the molecular weight of the polymer in solution in the range of from about 250,000 to about 5,000,000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 9, 1990
    Assignee: University of Florida
    Inventors: Eugene P. Goldberg, James W. Burns, G. Sudesh Kumar, David C. Osborn, Jeffrey A. Larson, John W. Sheets, Ali Yahiaoui, Richard Robinson
  • Patent number: 4806382
    Abstract: A method for modifying a PMMA surface by the gamma-irradiation induced polymerization thereon of N-vinylpyrrolidone, 2-hydroxyethylmethacrylate or a mixture thereof while maintaining the following conditions:(a) monomer concentration in the range of from about 0.5% to about 50%, by weight;(b) total gamma dose in the range of from about 0.01 to less than about 0.50 Mrad;(c) gamma dose rate in the range of from about 10 to about 2500 rads/minute; and(d) maintaining the molecular weight of the polymer in solution in the range of from about 250,000 to about 5,000,000.The invention also relates to modifying polypropylene, polyvinylidene fluoride, polycarbonate and silicon surfaces according to a similar method as well as materials produced by the above methods which are useful as ocular implants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1989
    Assignee: University of Florida
    Inventors: Eugene P. Goldberg, Jim Burns, John W. Sheets, Jeffrey A. Larson, Sudesh Kumar, David Osborn