US Patent Issued to Molnlycke Health Care on Dec. 16 for "Mobile negative pressure wound therapy device" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,391, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Molnlycke Health Care AB (Molndal, Sweden).

"Mobile negative pressure wound therapy device" was invented by Alain Roux (Traslovslage, Sweden), Anders Hermansson (Molnlycke, Sweden) and Stefan Kidborg (Ytterby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to a mobile negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) device comprising a negative pressure pump, where the NPWT device is adapted to generate an alarm signal in case of an abnormal operation of the NPWT device. The present disclosure also relates to a corresponding method for operating such an NPWT device and a t...