ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,044, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to T.J. Smith and Nephew Ltd. (Hull, Great Britain).

"Tissue treatment device" was invented by Mark Darren Bass (Sheffield, Great Britain), Varuni Rachindra Brownhill (Swanland, Great Britain), Anthony Dagger (York, Great Britain), Neill John Rawson (Doncaster, Great Britain) and Iain Webster (Hull, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments relate to apparatuses and methods for wound treatment with ultrasound. In certain embodiments, a therapeutic ultrasound wound treatment apparatus includes a wound dressing configured to be positioned over a wound to provide a substantia...