ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,185, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Ethicon Inc. (Raritan, N.J.).
"Sealant dressing with protected reactive components" was invented by Thomas Weindl (Somerville, N.J.), Xuejun Jay Liu (Somerville, N.J.), Gerard Llanos (Somerville, N.J.), Yi-Lan Allen Wang (Hillsborough, N.J.) and Wilai Kosol (Somerset, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to multi-layered wound dressings having a carrier layer, at least two sublayers, wherein each sublayer contains at least one reactive, cross-linkable component and the at least two reactive, cross-linkable components are co-reactive with the other and at least one...