ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,293, issued on March 18, was assigned to Molnlycke Health Care AB (Molndal, Sweden).
"Prophylactic dressing" was invented by Dennis Hansson (Gunnilse, Sweden), Karin Glasmastar (Hisings Backa, Sweden), Anna Grou (Gothenburg, Sweden), Conny Jakobsson (Lerum, Sweden) and Oceane Lancon (Save, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical dressing is described for prevention of pressure ulcers. The dressing has a gel pad having a low compressive strength; i.e. from 5 kPa to 60 kPa at a strain of 50%, as measured by the compression test described herein. The dressing reduces the shear and compression forces on the skin and in the under...