US Patent Issued to T.J.Smith and Nephew on Sept. 23 for "Apparatuses and methods for negative pressure wound therapy" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,790, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to T.J.Smith and Nephew Ltd. (Hull, Great Britain).

"Apparatuses and methods for negative pressure wound therapy" was invented by Victoria Beadle (Hull, Great Britain), Varuni Rachindra Brownhill (Swanland, Great Britain), Brian Gilchrist (Loosley Row, Great Britain), Danielle Susan Johnson (Hull, Great Britain), Luke Michael Parry (Goole, Great Britain) and Hannah Bailey Weedon (Hull, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments related to a wound dressing for treating circumferential wounds for use in a negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT). The wound dressing can includ...