US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on Oct. 20 for "Dressings and methods for treating a tissue site on a patient" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,236, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Dressings and methods for treating a tissue site on a patient" was invented by Christopher Brian Locke (Bournemouth, Great Britain), Timothy Mark Robinson (Shillingstone, Great Britain) and Aidan Marcus Tout (Alderbury, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dressings, systems, and methods for treating a tissue site on a patient involve allowing liquids from the tissue site or a priming fluid to evaporate and exit the dressing through a liquid-impermeable, vapor-permeable membrane. The dressing is able to process more liquids than...