ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,805, issued on April 8, was assigned to KCI Licensing Inc. (San Antonio).

"Dressing with integrated pump and releasably coupled pump actuator" was invented by Larry Tab Randolph (San Antonio), Sara Cinnamon (San Francisco), Stefan Foulstone (San Francisco), Charles Hartzell (San Mateo, Calif.), Stephanie Henze (San Mateo, Calif.), Robert Lane (Larkspur, Calif.) and Colton Sanford (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dressing for treating a tissue site with negative pressure including a tissue interface, a cover, a chamber wall, and a base. The cover may be adapted to be sealed to epidermis proximate the tissue site. The ch...