US Patent Issued to Smith & Nephew on Aug. 26 for "Wound treatment apparatuses and methods with negative pressure source integrated into wound dressing" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,895, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Smith & Nephew PLC (Watford, Great Britain).

"Wound treatment apparatuses and methods with negative pressure source integrated into wound dressing" was invented by Ben Alan Askem (Leeds, Great Britain), Victoria Beadle (Hull, Great Britain), John Philip Gowans (Hessle, Great Britain), Mark Hesketh (Royston, Great Britain), Allan Kenneth Frazer Grugeon Hunt (Beverley, Great Britain), William Kelbie (Inverness, Great Britain), Damyn Musgrave (Cottenham, Great Britain) and Joseph William Robinson (Papworth Everard, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments relate to appara...