ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,076, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).
"Dressing providing apertures with multiple orifice sizes for negative-pressure therapy" was invented by Christopher Brian Locke (Bournemouth, Great Britain), Timothy Mark Robinson (Shillingstone, Great Britain), Diwi L. Allen (San Antonio), Prathamesh Kharkar (San Antonio), Marisa Schmidt (San Antonio), Justin Rice (San Antonio), Shannon C. Ingram (Bulverde, Texas), Kenneth R. Smith (San Antonio), Benjamin Andrew Pratt (Poole, Great Britain) and Christopher A. Carroll (San Antonio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example embodimen...