US Patent Issued to T.J.Smith and Nephew on Nov. 4 for "Patient protection from unsafe electric current in sensor integrated dressings and systems" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,286, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to T.J.Smith and Nephew Ltd. (Hull, Great Britain).

"Patient protection from unsafe electric current in sensor integrated dressings and systems" was invented by Felix Clarence Quintanar (Hull, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some cases, a wearable wound monitoring and/or treatment system can include a substantially flexible substrate configured to be positioned in a wound of a patient, the substantially flexible substrate supporting at least one of a sensor configured to monitor a physiological parameter of the wound or a transducer configured to treat the wound. The system can inclu...