ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,276, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).
"Adhesive eyelid closure article" was invented by Christoph Schuell (Neuss, Germany), Amanda C. Engler (Woodbury, Minn.), Kiu-Yuen Tse (Woodbury, Minn.), Hironobu Ishiwatari (Dusseldorf, Germany), Thomas Hannen (Krefeld, Germany), Thomas Apeldorn (Monchengladbach, Germany), Uwe Grau (Hilden, Germany) and Donald George Peterson (Shoreview, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed adhesive eyelid closure article has a support layer and a pressure sensitive adhesive on the support layer. The support layer defines a main body and a...