Patent ID: 7947366

Claim:
A medical adhesive tape, comprising a hot melt pressure sensitive adhesive layer in a pattern comprising at least two linear strips of pressure sensitive adhesive crossing each other to form a lattice pattern; wherein a plurality of parallelogrammic openings free of adhesive are formed by the strips in the lattice pattern, with each parallelogrammic opening having a major diagonal line (A), a minor diagonal line (B); wherein the length of the major diagonal line (A) is from 0.5 mm to 10 mm; the length of the minor diagonal line (B) is from 0.3 to 7 mm; and wherein the adhesive free area defined by the parallelogrammic openings is greater than 25%; and wherein the hot-melt pressure sensitive adhesive layer has a recovery of at least 35% as measured by the Creep Compliance test.