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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2016
Applicant:
Kci Licensing, Inc., San Antonio, TX (US);
Inventor:
T. Blane Sanders, San Antonio, TX (US);
Assignee:
KCI LICENSING, INC., San Antonio, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/322 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/322 (2013.01); A61B 2017/3225 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present application relates to devices and methods for harvesting skin graft sheets. The present invention provides a blister raising device comprising a blade assembly for cutting a blister sheet and an array of protrusions configured to prevent a portion of skin at the donor site from blistering.