3m Innovative Properties Company

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

Solventum Intellectual Properties Company

3m Innovation Properties Company

John J Rogers

Stephen M Sanocki

Andrew R Fox

Kannan Seshadri

Jonathan M Lise

George W Frost

Lahoussaine Lalouch

Mario Alberto Perez

Joseph D Rule

James P Endle

Robert J Maki

Guido Hitschmann

John L Erickson

Joannes F H M Schuren

Kay Mohr

Gregory R Lambach

Eva-Maria Graf

Audrey A Sherman

Jayshree Seth

Michael R Berrigan

Clinton P Waller, Jr

Cary A Kipke

Naimul Karim

Shinji Kimura

Amanda Catherine Engler

Douglas Eugene Weiss

Simon S Fung

Mary L Brown

Michael J Ulsh

Richard L Peloquin

Gary F Howorth

John R Jacobson

Jeffrey J Schwab

Jon E Stickrod

Nhat Ha T Nguyen

Nobuharu Arai

Toshiyuki Watanabe

Joannes F Schuren

Clinton P Waller

Joannes Schuren

Gregory Lambach

The disclosed reinforced adhesive substrate includes a transparent, flexible, breathable backing with a reinforcing material having open areas to the substrate. The reinforcing material strengthen the breathable backing while maintaining transparency so that overall the substrate is transparent. A transparent adhesive substrate can allow the underlying surface to be visualized.

Reinforced adhesive substrate

Compression sleeve () for application circumferentially around a human limb () to exert therapeutic pressure on the limb. The compression sleeve has a fabric (), which comprises viscoelastic strands () for providing the fabric with viscoelastic properties.

Compression sleeve

A nestable framed pleated air filter, including a non-self-supporting, compressible, pleated air filter media with a plurality of oppositely-facing pleats and with a plurality of upstream pleat tips and downstream pleat tips and downstream pleat valleys, the pleated air filter media further including a plurality of bridging filaments that are bonded to at least some of the upstream pleat tips. The filter includes a frame with sidewalls that are angled so that the framed pleated air filter is nestable.

Nestable framed pleated air filter and method of making

A medical article and methods of using same. The medical article can include a machine direction (MD) and a cross-machine direction (CMD); a support layer; and a viscoelastic layer. The viscoelastic layer can be coupled to the support layer, and the viscoelastic layer can be discontinuous in the MD and/or the CMD. The viscoelastic layer can recover at least 70% of its deformation after 48 hours at room temperature after being strained to 50% elongation, such that the medical article has a first tensile stiffness Tat a first strain rate S, and a second tensile stiffness Tat a second strain rate S. The ratio of S/Scan be at least 100, and the ratio of T/Tcan be at least 1.5. The method can include wrapping the medical article around a body part; applying the first strain rate S; and applying the second strain rate S.

Viscoelastic medical article

Gravity-laid inorganic fiber webs and methods of making and using are disclosed. The gravity-laying process comprises mechanically separating inorganic fibers and collecting the fibers as a web, and may comprise blending of multiple types of inorganic fibers and/or blending of inorganic particulate additives with the fibers.

Inorganic fiber webs and methods of making and using

Wound dressing articles comprising a nonwoven web comprising a plurality of fibers having grafted pendant hydrophilic groups, methods that use high energy irradiation for making a plurality of fibers having grafted pendant hydrophilic groups, useful for making wound dressing articles.

Monomer-grafted fibers and uses thereof

Monolithic gravity-laid inorganic fiber webs that are greater than about 5 cm in thickness are disclosed. Methods of making and using such webs are also disclosed. The gravity-laying process comprises mechanically separating inorganic fibers and collecting the fibers as a monolithic thick web, and may comprise blending of multiple types of inorganic fibers and/or blending of inorganic particulate additives with the fibers.

Thick inorganic fiber webs and methods of making and using

Reinforced articles particularly adapted for use in combination with an adhesive to form reinforced adhesive tape articles that are stretchable as well as hand-tearable along with being highly conformable and cinchable.

Stretchable, hand-tearable, conformable, and cinchable reinforced adhesive tape articles

A framed pleated air filter, including a non-self-supporting, compressible, pleated air filter media with a plurality of oppositely-facing pleats and with a plurality of upstream pleat tips and downstream pleat tips, the pleated air filter media further including a plurality of bridging filaments that are bonded to at least some of the upstream pleat tips. The framed pleated air filter does not include any support member on the downstream face of the pleated air filter media.

Framed pleated air filter with upstream bridging filaments

A filtering face-piece respiratorthat comprises a mask bodyand a harnessthat is joined to the mask body. The mask bodyincludes a filter layerand a nonwoven fibrous cover web. The fibrous cover webis partially occluded and is generally parallel to and spaced from the filter layersuch that air passing through the cover webcan move freely between the cover weband the filter layerso that it can enter the filter layerat essentially any available point over the filter layer surface. The inventive respirator is beneficial in that it can provide very good splash fluid and airborne contaminant protection while also exhibiting an extraordinary low pressure drop across the mask body during breathing.

Splash-fluid resistant filtering face-piece respirator

A compression bandaging system includes inner and outer bandages. The inner bandage is an inner skin facing, elongated, elastic bandage and includes an elongated, elastic substrate and an elongated foam layer affixed to a face of the substrate. The outer bandage is an outer, elongated, self-adhering elastic bandage having a compressive force when extended. In use, the outer bandage overlies the inner bandage.

Compression bandage system

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Saint Paul, MN, United States of America

John J Rogers