ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,722, issued on July 15, was assigned to Ethicon Inc. (Raritan, N.J.).

"Sealant dressing with removable intermediate separating layer" was invented by Nir Nativ (Somerville, N.J.), Gerard Llanos (Somerville, N.J.), Thomas Weindl (Somerville, N.J.) and Sai Veruva (Somerville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to medical devices having a first porous substrate layer with at least a surface coating thereon of a first co-reactive component and a second substrate layer with at least a surface coating layer of a second co-reactive component that reacts with the first co-reactive component, and a removable...