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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2017
Applicant:
Kci Licensing, Inc., San Antonio, TX (US);
Inventors:
Sameer Ahmed Sabir, Cambridge, MA (US);
M. Josh Tolkoff, Brookline, MA (US);
Andrew Ziegler, Arlington, MA (US);
Assignee:
KCI LICENSING, INC., San Antonio, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/322 (2006.01); A61B 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/322 (2013.01); A61B 2017/306 (2013.01); A61B 2017/308 (2013.01); A61B 2017/3225 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention generally relates to methods for applying a skin graft. Methods of the invention involve harvesting an epidermal skin graft, and applying the epidermal skin graft to a recipient site such that the basal layer of the skin graft makes direct contact with the recipient site.