US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on Sept. 9 for "Dressing with contracting layer for linear tissue sites" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,075, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Dressing with contracting layer for linear tissue sites" was invented by Christopher Brian Locke (Bournemouth, Great Britain), Timothy Mark Robinson (Shillingstone, Great Britain), Robert Tuck (Hampshire, Great Britain) and Gareth Stephenson (Southampton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for closing an opening through a surface of a tissue site are described. The system includes a sealing member adapted to cover the opening to form a sealed space and a negative-pressure source adapted to be...