US Patent Issued to Smith & Nephew on Sept. 2 for "Medical device" (Tennessee, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,331, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Smith & Nephew Inc. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Medical device" was invented by Kevin J. Tanis (Collierville, Tenn.), Jin Zhang (Memphis, Tenn.) and Kelly Ann Umstead (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device includes a treatment module configured to apply a treatment to a patient. The medical device includes an interface configured to operatively connect to a removable storage device storing authorization data that identifies a level of treatment authorization. The medical device includes a processing device configured to perform operations in response to receiving user input indic...