US Patent Issued to Smith & Nephew on April 21 for "Negative pressure wound therapy device activation and control" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,287, issued on April 21, was assigned to Smith & Nephew PLC (Watford, Great Britain).

"Negative pressure wound therapy device activation and control" was invented by Ben Alan Askem (Leeds, Great Britain), Victoria Beadle (Hull, Great Britain), John Philip Gowans (Hessle, Great Britain), Mark Hesketh (Royston, Great Britain), Allan Kenneth Frazer Grugeon Hunt (Beverley, Great Britain), William Kelbie (Inverness, Great Britain), Damyn Musgrave (Cottenham, Great Britain) and Joseph William Robinson (Papworth Everard, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of negative pressure wound therapy systems and methods are disc...