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US 12,508,165 B2Granted
Heated hydrocolloid patches for skin treatment
AssigneeAso LLC
InventorsBrooke A. Hagerty, Edmund A. Sinda, Mira Dosen
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Abstract
A skin patch that is adherable to human skin over a blemish on the skin has an outer layer that forms a physical barrier over the blemish when applied thereto and a hydrocolloid layer attached to the outer layer that contacts the blemish when applied thereto. A thermochromic material is on the skin patch and/or waterproof packaging encapsulating the skin patch. The thermochromic material indicates the skin patch is at a predetermined temperature.
Claims8
A method of treating a skin blemish, the method comprising:
- heating a hydrocolloid skin patch with a thermochromic material that indicates the hydrocolloid skin patch is at a predetermined temperature;
- and
- applying the hydrocolloid skin patch to the skin blemish once the thermochromic material indicates the hydrocolloid skin patch is at the predetermined temperature, wherein the thermochromic material is on waterproof packaging encapsulating the hydrocolloid skin patch and heating is performed by heating the waterproof packaging encapsulating the hydrocolloid skin patch in hot water.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.