US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on June 3 for "Medical articles with radio opaque patterns" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,269, issued on June 3, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Medical articles with radio opaque patterns" was invented by Audrey A. Sherman (Woodbury, Minn.), Tony J. Kaufman (Rosemount, Minn.) and David A. Cadalbert Jr. (Baldwin, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Absorbent medical articles include a first absorbent layer with a radio opaque element located on the surface of the first absorbent layer. The radio opaque element has at least one segment that is non-linear and has at least one vertex, the vertex defines an angle of at least 15deg and less than 165deg. The radio opaque element may be ...