ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,551, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Drug release coating compositions" was invented by Hongxia Zeng (Maple Grove, Minn.), Jonathan Pascal Chaky (Saint Paul, Minn.), Ming Dang (Plymouth, Minn.) and Yen-Lane Chen (New Brighton, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, the present disclosure pertains to elutable coating compositions that comprise an excipient comprising a bio-degradable or bio-stable polymer selected from a poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) or methyl cellulose (MCC), a binding agent; a therapeutic agent. In some embodiments, the elutable coating comp...