US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on July 1 for "On-demand manufacturing for medical tapes" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,547, issued on July 1, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"On-demand manufacturing for medical tapes" was invented by Md Abdulla Al Masud (St. Paul, Minn.), Lindsey L. Hines (Stillwater, Minn.), Chin-Yee Ng (Oakdale, Minn.), Jia Hu (Mounds View, Minn.), Perry S. Dotterman (Maplewood, Minn.), Bryan T. Whiting (St. Paul, Minn.), Audrey A. Sherman (Woodbury, Minn.) and Taylor J. Kobe (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for customizing medical tapes from a roll stock at customer use sites are provided. The system includes a tape converting machine where an adhesion modification ...