US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on Sept. 1 for "Medical article with backing" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,926, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Eagan, Minn.).

"Medical article with backing" was invented by Haoming Rong (Woodbury, Minn.), Vinod P. Menon (Woodbury, Minn.) and Linda Kay Metzger Olson (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to an article that includes a conformable backing having first and second opposed major surfaces. The conformable backing can be formed from a thermoplastic polymer selected from a group consisting of polyurethanes, polyesters, and combinations thereof. The conformable backing has a tensile strength of no greater tha...