Patent 12023226 was granted and assigned to Cytrellis Biosystems, Inc. on July, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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.