ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,166, issued on Dec. 30.
"Wound bolster dressing and method of use" was invented by Jeffrey R. Marcus (Chapel Hill, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wound bolster includes an inner non-adherent face, a compressible and expandable body, and an outer elastic face where the inner non-adherent face is configured for contact with a wound on a subject and the outer elastic face is configured, upon securing of the wound bolster to a periphery of the wound, to generate a compressive force within the compressible and expandable body in response to applied deformation, which is transmitted as a normal compressive force to the subject."
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