ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,399, issued on April 14, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Method and system for providing active tissue site debridement" was invented by Brett L. Moore (San Antonio), Christopher A. Carroll (San Antonio), Justin R. Rice (Denver), Benjamin A. Pratt (Poole, Great Britain) and James Seddon (Wimborne, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wound debridement system includes a wound dressing having an active layer and a wound interface layer. The active layer is formed from one or more drive elements arranged about a film layer, by which the drive elements are attached to the wound interf...