US Patent Issued to Smith & Nephew on Jan. 27 for "Systems and methods for detecting operational conditions of reduced pressure therapy" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,457, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Smith & Nephew Inc. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Systems and methods for detecting operational conditions of reduced pressure therapy" was invented by Edward Yerbury Hartwell (Hull, Great Britain), Felix C. Quintanar (Hull, Great Britain) and Jason Peter De Villiers (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a negative pressure wound therapy system can detect and classify one or more operational conditions, including detection of a wound bleeding. The system can react to detection of blood by providing an indication, reducing the intensity or stopping therapy, releasing...