US Patent Issued to Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on Sept. 29 for "Vacuum therapy devices and methods" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,324, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Vacuum therapy devices and methods" was invented by Andrew Hindmarsh (Cambridge, Great Britain), Sean Licence (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Adam Farrow (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum therapy device for treatment of a defect internal of a human or animal body, the device comprising: a porous medium for treatment of the defect; a catheter having a proximal end and a distal end, wherein the catheter is configured to be inserted into the body to enable deployment of the porous medi...