ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,792, issued on May 26, was assigned to BSN MEDICAL GMBH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Mechanical wound cleansing device" was invented by Tim Wilhelms (Hamburg, Germany), Arshi Annahit (Hamburg, Germany) and Patrick Schutz (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a mechanical wound cleansing device comprising a carrier layer and an abrasive loop system arranged above the carrier layer, whereby the loop system is an intermeshed fiber system which is intermeshed above the carrier layer and/or a loop system comprising highly and softly abrasive loops. The present invention further relates to a method of producing sai...