US Patent Issued to Surmodics on Oct. 14 for "Polyacrylic acid containing lubricious coatings for medical devices with enhanced properties" (Minnesota, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,951, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Surmodics Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Polyacrylic acid containing lubricious coatings for medical devices with enhanced properties" was invented by Michael Militello (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Syed Hossainy (Hayward, Calif.) and David E. Babcock (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to polyacrylic acid containing lubricious coatings for medical devices. In an embodiment, a lubricious coated medical device is included having a substrate and a first layer disposed over the substrate. The first layer can include a photoreactive polyvinylpyrrolidone, a non-phot...