US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on Jan. 20 for "Negative pressure wound therapy leak alarm system" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,905, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Negative pressure wound therapy leak alarm system" was invented by James Seddon (Wimborne, Great Britain) and Benjamin A. Pratt (Poole, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One implementation of the present disclosure is a method for dynamically controlling an alarm of a negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) device, according to some embodiments. In some embodiments, the method includes initiating NPWT, comparing an initial pump duty to a threshold value to determine a dressing application quality, monitoring a leakage rate of ...