ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,082, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Eagan, Minn.).

"Wound dressing material and methods of making and using the same" was invented by Petra L. Kohler Riedi (Minneapolis), Saurabh Batra (Minneapolis), Naimul Karim (Maplewood, Minn.), Joseph J. Stoffel (Hastings, Minn.), Rajan B. Bodkhe (Woodbury, Minn.), Joseph A. Dunbar (Woodbury, Minn.), Colby W. Dotseth (Baldwin, Minn.) and Semra Colak Atan (St. Louis Park, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wound dressing material comprises a base fiber web comprising 35 weight parts to 75 weight parts of polyether polyurethane; 17.5 weight parts to 50 ...