Patent ID: 9517082
Filing Date: 2016-12-13
CPC Classification: A61B

Claim Text:
1. A method of skin grafting, the method comprising the steps of: placing a skin graft device on a donor site, wherein the skin graft device comprises a hollow body; creating a plurality of microblisters from the donor site by producing a negative pressure within the hollow body of the skin graft device; placing a first substrate within said hollow body so as to contact at least a portion of said microblisters; cutting the plurality of microblisters thereby creating a plurality of micrografts, capturing the plurality of micrografts on the first substrate; preparing said micrografts for transfer to a recipient site without culturing said micrografts or applying biologics to said micrografts; and transferring said micrografts from said first substrate to a recipient site.