ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,522, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Smith & Nephew PLC (Watford, Great Britain).
"Sensor integrated dressings and systems" was invented by Philip Gowans (Doncaster, Great Britain) and Marcus Damian Phillips (Wakefield, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some cases, a wound dressing comprises a substantially flexible substrate with a first, wound-facing side supporting a plurality of electronic components and a second side opposite the first side, wherein the substrate comprises a plurality of perforations formed though the substrate and wherein the plurality of perforations comprise walls on the exterior surface of t...