Patent ID: 7781010

Claim:
A method of coating a medical implant device with at least one of a polymer or a therapeutic agent, said method comprising: providing a medical implant device positioned in a coating portion of a chamber, positioning said chamber in rotational drive communication with a docking apparatus, said docking apparatus being controlled by a programmable electronic device, and if mixing of components is required to form a coating composition, introducing components for said coating into a mixing portion of the chamber, mixing said components in said mixing portion to form a coating composition, and delivering said coating composition to the coating portion of the chamber, or, if no mixing is required to form the coating composition, delivering said coating composition to the coating portion of the chamber, and, contacting said medical implant device with said coating composition so as to produce a coating on said medical implant device, and draining excess coating composition from said medical implant device, wherein said docking station rotates said chamber to effect at least one of said contacting or said draining.