US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on Jan. 20 for "Dressing with integrated sensor for negative-pressure therapy" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,693, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Dressing with integrated sensor for negative-pressure therapy" was invented by Christopher Brian Locke (Bournemouth, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dressing for treating a tissue site with negative pressure, having an integrated sensor comprising a force or load measurement sensor. The sensor may telemeter to a therapy system the deformation of the dressing as the dressing is pushed into the tissue site during the application of negative pressure to the tissue site. The sensor may measure the force that is applied to the...