US Patent Issued to Smith & Nephew on Sept. 23 for "Wound analysis device and method" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,307, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Smith & Nephew PLC (Watford, Great Britain).

"Wound analysis device and method" was invented by Allan Kenneth Frazer Grugeon Hunt (Beverley, Great Britain) and Marcus Damian Phillips (Wakefield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of tissue monitoring and therapy systems and methods are disclosed. In some embodiments, a monitoring and therapy system comprises collecting video images of a tissue site, amplifying said video images via Eulerian Video Magnification, and determining a treatment parameter from the amplified video images detectable by Eulerian Video Magnificatio...