ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,118, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to MEDTRADE PRODUCTS Ltd. (Crewe, Great Britain).
"Absorbent wound dressing" was invented by Mark O'Brien (Crewe, Great Britain), Jennifer Haynes (Crewe, Great Britain), Neil Johnson (Crewe, Great Britain), Thomas Lane (Crewe, Great Britain) and Nicola Deeley (Crewe, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns extensible absorbent wound dressings. The wound dressing has a wound contact layer having a proximal surface facing toward the wound and a distal surface facing away from the wound, and a backing layer having a proximal surface facing toward the wound and a dist...