ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,486, issued on July 21, was assigned to Smith & Nephew PLC (Watford, Great Britain).

"Sensor sheet with digital distributed data acquisition for wound monitoring and treatment" was invented by David Michael Bray (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Felix Clarence Quintanar (Hull, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wound monitoring and/or therapy apparatus can include multiple sensor circuits, a selection circuit coupled to each sensor circuit, and a processor configured to be in communication with the selection circuit. Each sensor circuit can process multiple sensor signals to generate a single output signal from the multiple ...