US Patent Issued to KCI Manufacturing UnLtd. on Sept. 15 for "Fluid storage container" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,287, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to KCI Manufacturing UnLtd. Co. (Westmeath, Ireland).

"Fluid storage container" was invented by Benjamin A. Pratt (Bracknell, Great Britain), Shannon C. Ingram (Saint Paul, Minn.) and Thomas A. Edwards (Bracknell, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for optimizing fluid storage in a negative pressure therapy system are described. A fluid storage canister includes a first section, a second section, a fluid flow pathway, and a forced air module. The first section is fluidly coupled to a dressing and stores fluid, and the second section is fluidly coupled ...