ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,633, issued on June 10, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"System for monitoring compliant usage of negative pressure wound therapy" was invented by Gregory Phillips (Broken Arrow, Okla.) and Brian Robey (Fair Oaks Ranch, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses for treating a tissue site are described. In some embodiments, the system may include a dressing, a negative-pressure source, and a communication device. The communication device may be coupled to the negative-pressure source and configured to transmit operational data of the negative pressure source to a r...