US Patent Issued to Smith & Nephew on Feb. 25 for "Blockage and canister full detection in reduced pressure therapy systems" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,197, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Smith & Nephew Inc. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Blockage and canister full detection in reduced pressure therapy systems" was invented by Carrie Lee Childress (Dallas), William Joseph Jaecklein (Saint Petersburg, Fla.) and Felix C. Quintanar (Hull, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of negative pressure wound therapy apparatuses and methods for using such apparatuses are disclosed. In some embodiments, a negative pressure wound therapy apparatus includes a controller configured to determine a level of exudate in a canister (or a dressing) based at least in part on one or more chara...