US Patent Issued to Smith & Nephew on June 9 for "Automatic wound coupling detection in negative pressure wound therapy systems" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,881, issued on June 9, was assigned to Smith & Nephew Inc. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Automatic wound coupling detection in negative pressure wound therapy systems" was invented by Edward Yerbury Hartwell (Hull, Great Britain), Felix C. Quintanar (Hull, Great Britain) and Jason De Villiers (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of negative pressure wound therapy systems and methods for operating the systems are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system includes a negative pressure source, a sensor, and a controller. The negative pressure source can provide negative pressure via a fluid flow path to the wound dress...