US Patent Issued to Smith & Nephew on Oct. 6 for "Sensor positioning and optical sensing for sensor enabled wound therapy dressings and systems" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,864, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Smith & Nephew PLC (Watford, Great Britain).

"Sensor positioning and optical sensing for sensor enabled wound therapy dressings and systems" was invented by Allan Kenneth Frazer Grugeon Hunt (Beverley, Great Britain) and Marcus Damian Phillips (Horbury, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a wound monitoring and/or therapy apparatus can include a wound dressing configured to be positioned over a wound. The wound dressing can support one or more sensors. The one or more sensors can include an optical sensor array cluster, which can include an optical sensor and single ...