Patents Assigned to KCI Licencsing, Inc.
  • Reduced-pressure, abdominal treatment systems and methods
    Patent number: 8608776
    Abstract: A reduced-pressure abdominal treatment system has an open-cavity treatment device for providing reduced-pressure treatment proximate a patient's abdominal contents; a deep-tissue closure device for applying a closing force on a deep-tissue wound on a patient's fascia; a surface-wound closure subsystem for providing a closing force on a surface wound on the patient's epidermis; and a reduced-pressure supply subsystem operable to develop a reduced pressure. Methods are also included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: KCI Licencsing, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Guy Coward, Mark Stephen James Beard, Colin John Hall, Ian James Hardman, Keith Patrick Heaton, James Joseph Sealy, David George Whyte