US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on Aug. 4 for "Wound fluid collection canister with integrated irrigation fluid pump head" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,428, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Wound fluid collection canister with integrated irrigation fluid pump head" was invented by Christopher B. Locke (Bournemouth, Great Britain) and Benjamin A. Pratt (Poole, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combined instillation fluid delivery pump head and wound fluid collection canister apparatus for use with a negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) unit includes a body defining a wound fluid collection canister configured to collect wound exudate and defining a pump head formed by a partially cylindrical recess in a wall of...