US Patent Issued to Molnlycke Health Care on March 4 for "Canister for a mobile negative pressure wound therapy device" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,778, issued on March 4, was assigned to Molnlycke Health Care AB (Molndal, Sweden).

"Canister for a mobile negative pressure wound therapy device" was invented by Ulf Johannison (Landvetter, Sweden), Niclas Flach (Alingsas, Sweden) and Fredrik Sahle (Lindome, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a canister for a mobile negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) device, specifically adapted for ensuring prolonged uninterrupted use of the NPWT device. The canister has an inlet port and a filter member. The canister also includes a bypass member adapted to at least partly allow passage of air from the inlet port to the filter ...