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US 2024/0108513 A1Published application
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.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- a skin patch that is adherable to human skin over a blemish on the skin;
- the skin patch having (a) an outer layer that forms a physical barrier over the blemish when applied thereto and (b) a hydrocolloid layer attached to the outer layer that contacts the blemish when applied thereto;
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- a thermochromic material on the skin patch and/or waterproof packaging encapsulating the skin patch, wherein the thermochromic material indicates the skin patch is at a predetermined temperature.
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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;
- applying the hydrocolloid skin patch to the skin blemish once the thermochromic material indicates the hydrocolloid skin patch is at the predetermined temperature.
A method comprising:
- making a hydrocolloid skin patch effective for treating a skin blemish by applying a thermochromic material to the hydrocolloid skin patch and/or waterproof packaging encapsulating the hydrocolloid skin patch;
- wherein the thermochromic material indicates the hydrocolloid skin patch is at a predetermined temperature.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.