US Patent Issued to Atrium Medical on Sept. 1 for "Chest drainage systems and methods" (New Hampshire, Florida, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,940, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Atrium Medical Corp. (Merrimack, N.H.).

"Chest drainage systems and methods" was invented by James Croteau (Brookline, N.H.), Theodore Karwoski (Naples, Fla.), Joanne Krawczyk (Dunstable, Mass.), Marc Larochelle (Bedford, N.H.), Patrick Lee (Lexington, Mass.) and Nicholas Want (Manchester, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chest drainage system including a collection device configured to receive fluid from the pleural cavity of a patient. A sensor is included to detect a pressure differential in the fluid. A display is configured to display a trend in occurrences of changes in pressure of t...