Patent ID: 9486431
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: A61F,A61K,A61L,A61M

Claim Text:
1. A medical device comprising: a substrate; and a coating on at least a portion of said substrate, wherein the coating comprises a plurality of layers, wherein at least one layer comprises a pharmaceutical agent that is crystalline, wherein the device is adapted to free at least a portion of the coating from the substrate upon stimulation of the coating, wherein the coating comprises at least one of a non-absorbable polymer and a bioabsorbable polymer, and wherein the portion of the coating freed from the device comprises the at least one of the non-absorbable polymer and the bioabsorbable polymer, and wherein at least about 35% of the coating is adapted to be freed from the substrate upon stimulation that lasts at most 20 seconds.