ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,528, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to IBERHOSPITEX S.A. (Llica de Vall, Spain).
"Sanitary dressing" was invented by Marc Coll Perez (Llica de Vall, Spain), Christian Breu (Putzbrunn, Germany) and Mario Lopez Moya (Llica de Vall, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sanitary dressing for protecting a portion of a catheter protruding from a patient body through a skin entry site is provided. The sanitary dressing comprises a proximal zone to be arranged on a primary dressing which is in contact with patient skin, a distal zone and an intermediate zone between the proximal and distal zones, thereby forming a sheath for receiving the...