US Patent Issued to KCI Manufacturing UnLtd. on Nov. 4 for "Multi-canister module for negative-pressure therapy" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,744, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to KCI Manufacturing UnLtd. Co. (Westmeath, Ireland).

"Multi-canister module for negative-pressure therapy" was invented by Christopher Brian Locke (Bournemouth, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments may relate to negative-pressure therapy, which may collect exudate from a tissue site. In some embodiments, a multi-canister module may allow a single negative-pressure source to draw exudate into two or more canisters. In some embodiments, pressure sensing may take place alongside negative-pressure treatment. In some embodiments, the multi-canister module may be configured ...