Patent ID: 8637136
Filing Date: 2014-01-28
Classification: A61M,B01F,B29C,B29D,B29K,B29L,B32B,G02B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An article comprising the combination of a carrier web ( 34 , 94 ) and an array of molded articles adhered to the carrier web which articles are characterized by microstructural features having an aspect ratio of at least 2:1 said array comprising columns of molded microneedle arrays aligned in the down-web direction and rows in the cross-web direction and in which array the closest center-to-center, or edge-to-edge, distance between the molded microneedle arrays is closer than the diagonal center-to-center, or edge-to-edge, distance between a molded microneedle array and another molded microneedle array in the next adjacent row and the next adjacent column.