US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on Aug. 25 for "Two-part wound dressing" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,831, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Two-part wound dressing" was invented by Julia Wilke (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.), Benjamin Wilke (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.), Mathew Thomas (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.) and Jim Jeter (Jacksonville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sterile two-part wound dressing for surgical drainage tube and chest thoracostomy tubes that is designed to create a seal around the chest tube during tube removal decreasing the risk of air leak and post-pull iatrogenic pneumothorax, to absorb exudate from the wound, and to provide a water-resistan...