US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on Oct. 21 for "Wound dressing with semi-rigid support to increase disruption using perforated dressing and negative pressure wound therapy" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,054, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Wound dressing with semi-rigid support to increase disruption using perforated dressing and negative pressure wound therapy" was invented by Christopher Allen Carroll (San Antonio), Justin Rice (San Antonio) and Shannon C. Ingram (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wound dressing includes a contact layer and a support layer. The contact layer is configured to engage and provide surface deformation, slough removal, or debride a wound bed and has a first side and a second side, the second side facing the wound surface. The suppo...