ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,358, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for scheduling and controlling wound therapy" was invented by Justin Rice (San Antonio), Christopher Allen Carroll (San Antonio), Shannon C. Ingram (Bulverde, Texas) and Brett L. Moore (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing negative-pressure therapy with fluid instillation therapy and, more specifically, scheduling and controlling both the negative pressure therapy and the fluid instillation therapy are described. The method may comprise applying negative pressure to the dressing ...