US Patent Issued to T.J.Smith and Nephew on Aug. 11 for "Systems and methods for measuring and tracking wound volume" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,746, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to T.J.Smith and Nephew Ltd. (Hull, Great Britain).

"Systems and methods for measuring and tracking wound volume" was invented by Varuni Rachindra Brownhill (Swanland, Great Britain), Benjamin James Gardner (Hull, Great Britain) and Samuel John Mortimer (Kingston upon Hull, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A negative pressure wound therapy system can include a negative pressure source configured to provide, via a fluid flow path, negative pressure to a wound covered by a wound dressing. The system can include a controller. The controller can be configured to periodically activate the n...