US Patent Issued to KCI Manufacturing UnLtd. on July 21 for "Evaporative fluid management canister for wound therapy system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,810, issued on July 21, was assigned to KCI Manufacturing UnLtd. Co. (Westmeath, Ireland).

"Evaporative fluid management canister for wound therapy system" was invented by Thomas Alan Edwards (San Antonio), Benjamin A. Pratt (San Antonio) and Dominic Nolan (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A canister for use with a wound therapy system includes first and second compartments configured to receive and contain wound exudate, and an airflow pathway. The airflow pathway includes a planar region positioned between the first compartment and the second compartment, an inlet extending from a first end of the planar region at an obtu...