ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,540, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CONVATEC TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Las Vegas).
"Negative pressure wound dressing management system" was invented by Stephen Bishop (Deeside, Great Britain), Duncan Gilding (Deeside, Great Britain), Bryony Lee (Deeside, Great Britain) and Shauna Powell (Deeside, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wound exudate management system includes a pump for generating negative pressure, a dressing for covering and protecting a wound of a user, a tube including an interior lumen, the tube disposed between the pump and the dressing such that the pump and the dressing are in fluid communication via the in...