US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on Sept. 9 for "Disruptive dressing for use with negative pressure and fluid instillation" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,939, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Disruptive dressing for use with negative pressure and fluid instillation" was invented by Shannon C. Ingram (Bulverde, Texas), Christopher Brian Locke (Bournemouth, Great Britain), Peter Arnold (Northumberland, Great Britain), Timothy Mark Robinson (Shillingstone, Great Britain), Christopher Allen Carroll (San Antonio) and Michael E. Manwaring (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for disrupting material at a tissue site is described. A contact layer may be selected for use on the tissue site and positione...