ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,894, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).
"Partially transparent wound dressing" was invented by Thomas A. Edwards (Hampshire, Great Britain), Christopher Brian Locke (Bournemouth, Great Britain), Timothy M. Robinson (Shillingstone, Great Britain) and Justin Alexander Long (Bournemouth, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A partially transparent dressing includes a fluid management core having a first side and a second, wound-facing side. The fluid management core includes an absorbent material and a plurality of optically transparent windows. The dressing includes a ...