ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,974, issued on July 22, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).
"Wound therapy system with wound volume estimation" was invented by Brett L. Moore (San Antonio), Shannon C. Ingram (Bulverde, Texas) and Justin Rice (Denver).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wound therapy system includes a negative pressure circuit, a pump, a pressure sensor, and a controller. The negative pressure circuit applies negative pressure to a wound. The pump is fluidly coupled to the negative pressure circuit and produces a negative pressure at the wound or within the negative pressure circuit. The pressure sensor measures the...