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US 12,251,497 B2Granted
Indicator marking technology for textiles
AssigneeAtex Technologies, Inc.
InventorsBrian McMurray, Mark Wesley Jessup, Tim Warner, Gary Webb Broussard, Jr., David B. Carroll, Morgan Gwaltney
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Abstract
Improved methods, designs and/or systems for incorporating markings and/or other visual and/or tactilely identifiable indicia on woven, knitted, nonwoven, braided and/or felted textiles used for medical textile implants and prostheses, including medical graft prostheses that would not affect the overall mechanical performance of the textile.
Claims19
A marked medical textile comprises:
- a medical textile;
- the medical textile including a primary yarn and a secondary yarn;
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- a marking indicator, the marking indicator comprises a marking from a UV laser, the marking indicator being aligned parallel to a portion of the secondary yarn of the medical textile to preserve mechanical performance;
- wherein the preservation of mechanical performance of the marked medical textile comprises a burst strength substantially equal to an unmarked medical textile.
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A custom marked medical textile comprising:
- a medical textile;
- the medical textile including a primary yarn and a secondary yarn, the primary yarn being interlaced in a first direction with the secondary yarn in a second direction to create a textile structure, the textile structure including one or more material properties;
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- an ultra-violet (UV) marking indicator, the UV marking indicator being disposed onto a portion of the medical textile creating an marked portion of the medical textile and an unmarked portion of the medical textile, the marked portion of the medical textile including a burst strength that is equal to or greater than a burst strength of the unmarked portion of the medical textile.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.