US Patent Issued to Molnlycke Health Care on Sept. 30 for "High throughput manufacture of polyurethane foam layers" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,535, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Molnlycke Health Care AB (Molndal, Sweden).

"High throughput manufacture of polyurethane foam layers" was invented by Antti Tapani Holopainen (Mikkeli, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is an at least partly continuous process for making polyurethane foam layers that are suitable for medical applications, in particular in wound dressings, at a high throughput rate. The described process includes a step of accelerated curing of the polyurethane foam performed at a stage of the overall curing process at which the risk of a run-away reaction is minimized."

The patent was filed on...