ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,652, issued on March 11, was assigned to Medline Industries LP (Northfield, Ill.).
"Surgical cap and method" was invented by Alan Genender (Northbrook, Ill.) and Hannah Zundel (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, a surgical cap is provided that includes a cover having a head-receiving cavity and a resilient member connected to the cover and extending about less than the entire head-receiving cavity. The cover includes a plurality of layers comprising at least one layer inward from the resilient member adapted to separate the resilient member from a head received in the head...