Patent ID: 8299205

Claim:
An acetone-soluble, absorbable polymer as a component of a medical device capable of beneficially interfacing with human blood and with the cell lining of a body cavity, the polymer comprising a film-forming, electrostatically spinnable, crystalline, segmented, 1-lactide polyaxial copolyester made by end-grafting a monocentric polyaxial polymeric initiator with a mixture of cyclic monomers, thereby covalently bonding crystallizable terminal segments onto an amorphous core, the amorphous core having a glass transition temperature below 37° C., the copolyester having a minimum solubility of 2 percent weight/volume in acetone, an inherent viscosity in chloroform of more than about 1.0 dL/g, a melting temperature of more than about 100° C., a heat of fusion of up to about 20 J/g, a shore-A hardness of less than about 100, and an ultimate elongation of greater than about 100 percent in film form.