US Patent Issued to KCI Manufacturing UnLtd. on July 7 for "Negative-pressure therapy dressing with expandable depth" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,984, issued on July 7, was assigned to KCI Manufacturing UnLtd. Co. (Westmeath, Ireland).

"Negative-pressure therapy dressing with expandable depth" was invented by Shannon C. Ingram (Bulverde, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments relate to dressings for treating a tissue site with negative pressure. Some dressing embodiments may be configured to allow the depth of the dressing to be expandable. For example, dressing embodiments may comprise a segmented manifold having one or more vertical expansion joints between segments of the manifold. Some embodiments may comprise a first layer adjacent to a first surface of...