US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on Oct. 27 for "Packaged medical articles with reduced packaging" (American, Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,351, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Packaged medical articles with reduced packaging" was invented by Audrey A. Sherman (Woodbury, Minn.), Christoph T.R. Schuell (Neuss, Germany), Jess W. Smith (Apple Valley, Minn.) and Hironobu Ishiwatari (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packaged medical article includes a package enclosing a medical article and a medical article contained within the package. The medical article is an adhesive article, where the adhesive article includes at least one fold along a fold line along an axis of symmetry of the adhesive article. Some of...