ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,998, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SLOAN WATER TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (London).

"Cleaning, healing and regeneration of tissue and wounds" was invented by Timothy Leighton (Southampton, Great Britain), David Voegeli (Southampton, Great Britain), Christopher Harling (Southampton, Great Britain), Thomas Secker (Southampton, Great Britain), Craig Dolder (Southampton, Great Britain) and Mengyang Zhu (Southampton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating human or animal tissue, the method comprising the step of: i. directing a stream of an aqueous liquid comprising gas bubbles excited by acoustic energy towards a wound...