ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 10 -- 3M Innovative Properties, St. Paul, Minnesota, has been assigned a patent (9,907,702) developed by five co-inventors for "monomer-grafted fibers and uses thereof." The co-inventors are Cary A. Kipke, Woodbury, Minnesota, John J. Rogers, St. Paul, Minnesota, Michael R. Berrigan, Oakdale, Minnesota, Clinton P. Waller Jr., White Bear Lake, Minnesota, and Douglas E. Weiss, Overland Park, Kansas. The abstract states: "Wound dressing articles comprising a nonwoven web comp . . .