ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,323, issued on March 25, was assigned to CONVATEC TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Las Vegas).
"Modified wound dressings" was invented by Lucy Ballamy (Llangollen, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein relate to compounds for the detection of wounds, e.g., chronic wounds or infected wounds, including compositions, substrates, kits, dressing materials, and articles, and systems containing such compounds. Further embodiments relate to methods of using these compositions, kits and systems in diagnostic assays, and in the diagnosis and/or detection of chronic or infected wounds based on enzymatic conversion of spec...