US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on Nov. 25 for "Distributed negative pressure wound therapy system incorporating an absorbent dressing and piezo-electric pump" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,511, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Distributed negative pressure wound therapy system incorporating an absorbent dressing and piezo-electric pump" was invented by Christopher Brian Locke (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A negative pressure wound therapy system includes a wound dressing, at least one pump fluidly coupled to the fluid interface, a pressure sensor fluidly coupled to the wound dressing, a control housing, and an electrical coupler. The wound dressing includes a sealing layer, an absorbent layer adjacent to the sealing layer, and a fluid interface ...