ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,308, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).
"Dressing including outlet connection fluid buffer" was invented by Christopher Brian Locke (Bournemouth, Great Britain) and Timothy Mark Robinson (Shillingstone, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a dressing suitable for treating a tissue site may include a sealing member configured to form a sealed enclosure relative to the tissue site. A fluid buffer may be configured to be positioned at a sealing member aperture in fluid communication between the sealed enclosure and an ambient environment external to the se...