US Patent Issued to Smith & Nephew on March 31 for "Multiple dressing negative pressure wound therapy system with calibrated leak paths" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,197, issued on March 31, was assigned to Smith & Nephew PLC (Watford, Great Britain).

"Multiple dressing negative pressure wound therapy system with calibrated leak paths" was invented by Sarah Jenny Collinson (Hull, Great Britain), Edward Yerbury Hartwell (Hull, Great Britain) and Felix Clarence Quintanar (Hull, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of apparatuses and methods for providing negative pressure wound therapy to multiple wounds are disclosed. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a negative pressure source configured to couple via a plurality of fluid flow paths to a plurality of wound dressings....