ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,027, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Lohmann & Rauscher GmbH (Vienna).
"Wound cleansing device" was invented by Axel Hentrich (Vienna), Carina Tauscher (Markt Piesting, Austria) and Cornelia Hausler (Vienna).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a wound cleansing device comprising a number of strand-shaped cleansing elements, characterized in that the cleansing quotient R=(E*F)/l of at least some cleansing elements is 0.05 N/mm or larger, particularly 0.1 N/mm or larger, preferably 1 N/mm or larger, particularly preferably 10 N/mm or larger and smaller than 1000 N/mm, preferably less than 500 N/mm, in particular...