Patent 7982087 was granted and assigned to Smith & Nephew on July, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A wound dressing includes a substantially transparent upper layer, an absorbent layer comprising a plurality of apertures arranged in a lattice pattern, and a low-adherent wound contact layer provided with a plurality of apertures arranged in a lattice pattern such the apertures of this layer are congruent with the apertures of the absorbent layer.