US Patent Issued to Milliken & Co. on July 1 for "Wound care device having fluid transfer and adhesive properties" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,435, issued on July 1, was assigned to Milliken & Co. (Spartanburg, S.C.).

"Wound care device having fluid transfer and adhesive properties" was invented by Laura Maher (Campobello, S.C.), Matthew I. Foote (Spartanburg, S.C.), Gregory A. Satterfield (Pelzer, S.C.), Rajib Mondal (Greer, S.C.) and Cristina M. Acevedo (Greer, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a wound care device which contains capillary force one-way pumps that are capable of transporting fluid, such as wound exudate, away from a wound site to the opposite side of the wound care device, which functions as a segregated fluid reservoir. This fl...