US Patent Issued to Smith & Nephew on Feb. 10 for "Optical sensing systems and methods for sensor enabled wound dressings and systems" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,271, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Smith & Nephew PLC (Watford, Great Britain).

"Optical sensing systems and methods for sensor enabled wound dressings and systems" was invented by Paul Gunning (Hull, Great Britain), Edward Yerbury Hartwell (Hull, Great Britain), Marcus Damian Phillips (Wakefield, Great Britain), Felix Clarence Quintanar (Hull, Great Britain) and Charlotte Rose Urwin (Hull, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some cases, a method of coating a wound dressing includes coating a wound facing side of a substantially flexible substrate of the wound dressing with a coating, the wound facing side of the sub...