ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,132, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).
"Device for spreading topical skin adhesive" was invented by Jason T. Perkins (Easton, Pa.), Grant S. Miller (Flanders, N.J.), Douglas E. Souls (Andover, N.J.) and Robert A. Rousseau (Riegelsville, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a proximal body portion configured to be gripped by a user, a distal body portion that terminates at a spreading tip configured to spread a topical skin adhesive along an application surface, and a flexural body portion that interconnects the proximal and distal body portions to define a monolithic b...