ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,062, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SPINAL SURGICAL STRATEGIES INC. (Incline Village, Nev.).

"Medical dressing to treat sucking chest wound and methods of forming same" was invented by Paul X. Harder (Williamsburg, Va.), Jeffrey B. Gray (Indianapolis) and John Biddle (Monticello, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical dressing to treat sucking chest wound, and methods of forming the medical dressing. The methods include the steps of overlaying a cover layer on an intermediate layer and the intermediate layer on a base layer such that openings in the intermediate and base layers are aligned and the cover layer overlays the ...