Patent 7410497 was granted and assigned to Boston Scientific on August, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention is directed to medical devices that contain at least one tissue contacting surface that is configured to undergo a variation in surface charge in response to a time-dependent signal. Such a variation in surface charge is provided, for example, to enhance or inhibit cellular growth adjacent to, on, or within the at least one tissue contacting surface.