Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

3m Innovative Properties Company

Other

John L Erickson

Stephen M Sanocki

Michael D Swan

John J Rogers

Leonard R Steidel

James A Rustad

Peter L Hauser

Peter J Kaehler

Edward J Woo

Thomas E Haskett

Yasuo Sudo

Yeun J Chou

Ronald E Bergsten

Daneeta L Erickson, Legal Representative

Michele H Pollock

Thomas L Jones

Thomas Haskett

Methods, devices and systems are provided for benefit management. One system includes a server including an application interface and access to a data store having one or more client files. A client file can include a definable set of business rules for managing and administering benefits and can include fund use rules for accessing and applying funds to claims from one or more accounts. The system includes a program operable on the server to apply the definable set of business rules in connection with processing a claim.

Benefit Management

Benefit management

A wipe is provided that includes a first wiping member bonded to a backing member along valleys, whereby the wiping member includes a plurality of discrete peaks, and an adhesive is provided, in one embodiment, in the valleys and not on the peaks.

Wipe

An abrasive article is provided having a rebulkable nonwoven web and a continuous sheet-like abrasive coating bonded to the first major surface of the nonwoven web. The abrasive coating comprising a plurality of abrasive particles dispersed in a binder.

Nonwoven abrasive articles and method of preparing same

A flexible mat is provided having a nonwoven fabric having first and second major surfaces; and a coating of metal oxide on only a portion of at least one of the major surfaces.

Fire barrier mat

Insulation blankets featuring a thermoplastic polyolefin protective covering.

Insulation blanket

The present invention relates to a flexible nonwoven mat comprising physically entangled shot-free ceramic oxide fibers. The flexible nonwoven mat is useful, for example, as filter material, mounting mat, thermal insulation, and sound insulation.

Flexible nonwoven mat

The present invention relates to a catalytic converter including a nonwoven mat comprising shot-free, high strength, magnesium aluminosilicate glass fiber.

Catalytic converter mounting mat

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White Bear Lake, MN, United States of America

John L Erickson