US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on Nov. 4 for "Low-profile fluid conductors with treatment indicators" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,277, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Low-profile fluid conductors with treatment indicators" was invented by Christopher Brian Locke (Bournemouth, Great Britain) and Thomas Alan Edwards (Hampshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for use in treating a tissue site with negative pressure, which may comprise a fluid path between a first end and a second end. The fluid conductor may additionally comprise a plurality of pressure indicators configured to indicate a pressure state between the first end and the second end. In some examples, the fluid conduc...