US Patent Issued to SafeHeal on March 4 for "Systems and methods for introducing and monitoring a negative pressure device for protecting an intestinal anastomosis" (South Carolina, Connecticut, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,321, issued on March 4, was assigned to SafeHeal SAS (Paris).

"Systems and methods for introducing and monitoring a negative pressure device for protecting an intestinal anastomosis" was invented by Michael J. Augelli (Avon, Conn.), Daniel Congdon (Somerville, Mass.), Ralph Allen Hulseman (Greenville, S.C.) and Cameron L. McPherson (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for monitoring a bypass device for protecting an intestinal anastomosis are provided. The system includes a pump, one or more fluid inlet lines fluidicly coupled to the pump and to a negative pressure chamber of the bypass device, and one...