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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2014
Applicant:
Cytrellis Biosystems, Inc., Woburn, MA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Cytrellis Biosystems, Inc., Woburn, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 13/00 (2006.01); A61F 13/02 (2006.01); A61B 17/3205 (2006.01); A61B 17/3209 (2006.01); A61M 35/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 13/0246 (2013.01); A61B 17/3205 (2013.01); A61B 17/32093 (2013.01); A61F 13/0233 (2013.01); A61M 35/00 (2013.01); A61F 2013/0028 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention relates to methods and devices for skin tightening after incising or excising tissue portions from a subject. Exemplary methods and devices include tunable dressings having an adhesive layer and a regulatable layer or an un-stretched layer that responds to one or more external stimuli to contract or expand the dressing, where the contraction or expansion can be uniform or non-uniform.