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US 2025/0053288 A1Published application
On-demand manufacturing for medical tapes
Assignee3M Innovative Properties Company
InventorsMd Abdulla Al Masud, Lindsey L. Hines, Chin-Yee Ng, Jia Hu, Perry S. Dotterman, Bryan T. Whiting, Audrey A. Sherman, Taylor J. Kobe
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Abstract
Systems and methods for customizing medical tapes from a roll stock at customer use sites are provided. The system includes a tape converting machine where an adhesion modification mechanism is configured to modify adhesion properties of the tape from the roll stock, automatically or based on received customization instructions.
Claims15
A system of making a customized medical tape comprising:
- one or more compact tape converting machines having a volume no greater than 5 m3, at least one of the tape converting machines comprising a roll of tape, an adhesion modification mechanism configured to modify adhesion properties of the tape, and a communication device;
- and
- a computing device comprising a second communication device communicatively connected to the communication device of the at least one tape converting machine, one or more computer processors, and a non-transitory, tangible computer-readable memory comprising instructions that when executed by the one or more computer processors cause the computer processors to:
- generate for display a user interface that allows a user to input instructions to modify the adhesion properties of the tape;
- and
- analyze the instructions to determine machine run parameters for the one or more tape converting machines.
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A method of customizing a medical tape, the method comprising:
- accessing to one or more compact tape converting machines having a volume no greater than 5 m3, at least one of the tape converting machines comprising a roll of tape, an adhesion modification mechanism configured to modify adhesion properties of the tape, and a communication device;
- and
- accessing to a computing device comprising a second communication device communicatively connected to the communication device of the at least one tape converting machine, one or more computer processors, and a non-transitory, tangible computer-readable memory comprising instructions that when executed by the one or more computer processors cause the computer processors to:
- generate for display a user interface that allows a user to input instructions to modify the adhesion properties of the tape;
- and
- analyze the instructions to determine machine run parameters for the one or more tape converting machines.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.