US Patent Issued to Smith & Nephew on June 2 for "Collapsible dressing for negative pressure wound treatment" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,905, issued on June 2, was assigned to Smith & Nephew PLC (Watford, Great Britain).

"Collapsible dressing for negative pressure wound treatment" was invented by Edward Yerbury Hartwell (Hull, Great Britain), Varuni Rachindra Brownhill (Swanland, Great Britain) and John Gowans (Hessle, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to negative pressure treatment systems and wound dressing systems, apparatuses, and methods that may be used for the treatment of wounds. In particular, some embodiments are directed to improved wound dressings comprising an obscuring layer that may hide fluid containe...