US Patent Issued to T.J. Smith and Nephew on June 17 for "Systems and methods for extending operational time of negative pressure wound treatment apparatuses" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,896, issued on June 17, was assigned to T.J. Smith and Nephew Ltd. (Hull, Great Britain).

"Systems and methods for extending operational time of negative pressure wound treatment apparatuses" was invented by Ben Alan Askem (Leeds, Great Britain), John Philip Gowans (Hessle, Great Britain), William Kelbie (Inverness, Great Britain), Damyn Musgrave (Cottenham, Great Britain), Roberto Damiao Da Costa Rodrigues (Hull, Great Britain) and Daniel Lee Steward (Hull, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A negative pressure wound therapy system can include a source of negative pressure negative pressure configured to aspirate fluid fro...