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Tim Stern — 24 Patents

SNSmith & Nephew: 18 patents #88 of 1,122Top 8%
UMUniversity Of Massachusetts: 7 patents #85 of 1,810Top 5%
3M: 1 patents #7,251 of 11,543Top 65%
Belper, GB: #5 of 63 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #168,038 of 4,157,543Top 5%
24 Patents All Time
Tim Stern has been granted 24 US patents while listed as an inventor at Smith & Nephew. The first was granted in 2013 and the most recent in November 2025. Tim Stern ranks #168,038 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.0%). Patent records list Tim Stern in Belper, GB.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2013 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2018.peak 52013: 1 patents20132014: 1 patents2016: 2 patents20162017: 1 patents2018: 5 patents20182019: 2 patents2020: 2 patents20202021: 3 patents2023: 1 patents20232024: 2 patents2025: 4 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–24 of 24 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12458541 Apparatuses and methods for negative pressure wound therapy Sean Albert, Ed Armstrong, Ken Beaudoin, Iain Michael Blackburn, Phil Bussone +13 more 2025-11-04
12458786 Fluid communication path Neill Philip Bannister, Edward Yerbury Hartwell, Iain Michael Blackburn, Andrew Linton, Mark White 2025-11-04
12447055 Compressible wound fillers and systems and methods of use in treating wounds with negative pressure Edward Yerbury Hartwell, John Kenneth Hicks, Carl Saxby, Elizabeth Mary Huddleston, John Christian Hoggarth +1 more 2025-10-21
12239509 Negative pressure wound closure device Philip David Canner, Raymond Dunn, John Alan Greenwood, Victoria Jody Hammond, Edward Yerbury Hartwell +7 more 2025-03-04
12133790 Negative pressure wound closure device Philip David Canner, Raymond Dunn, John Alan Greenwood, Victoria Jody Hammond, Edward Yerbury Hartwell +7 more 2024-11-05 $2,413,000
12082996 Apparatuses and methods for negative pressure wound therapy Sean Albert, Ed Armstrong, Ken Beaudoin, Iain Michael Blackburn, Phil Bussone +13 more 2024-09-10 $652,000
11564843 Negative pressure wound closure device Raymond Dunn, Victoria Jody Hammond, Edward Yerbury Hartwell, John Kenneth Hicks, Elizabeth Mary Huddleston +4 more 2023-01-31
11097044 Compressible wound fillers and systems and methods of use in treating wounds with negative pressure Edward Yerbury Hartwell, John Kenneth Hicks, Carl Saxby, Elizabeth Mary Huddleston, John Christian Hoggarth +1 more 2021-08-24 $1,397,000
11083631 Negative pressure wound closure device Raymond Dunn, Victoria Jody Hammond, Edward Yerbury Hartwell, John Kenneth Hicks, Elizabeth Mary Huddleston +4 more 2021-08-10 $2,412,000
11058588 Apparatuses and methods for negative pressure wound therapy Sean Albert, Ed Armstrong, Ken Beaudoin, Iain Michael Blackburn, Phil Bussone +13 more 2021-07-13 $3,484,000
RE48117 Apparatuses and methods for negative pressure wound therapy Sean Albert, Ed Armstrong, Ken Beaudoin, Iain Michael Blackburn, Phil Bussone +13 more 2020-07-28
10660992 Negative pressure wound closure device Philip David Canner, Raymond Dunn, John Alan Greenwood, Victoria Jody Hammond, Edward Yerbury Hartwell +7 more 2020-05-26 $2,761,000
10485905 Fluid communication path Neill Philip Bannister, Edward Yerbury Hartwell, Iain Michael Blackburn, Andrew Linton, Mark White 2019-11-26
10406037 Apparatuses and methods for negative pressure wound therapy Sean Albert, Ed Armstrong, Ken Beaudoin, Iain Michael Blackburn, Phil Bussone +13 more 2019-09-10 $1,739,000
10159771 Compressible wound fillers and systems and methods of use in treating wounds with negative pressure Edward Yerbury Hartwell, John Kenneth Hicks, Carl Saxby, Elizabeth Mary Huddleston, John Christian Hoggarth +1 more 2018-12-25
10130520 Negative pressure wound closure device Raymond Dunn, Victoria Jody Hammond, Edward Yerbury Hartwell, John Kenneth Hicks, Elizabeth Mary Huddleston +4 more 2018-11-20 $1,767,000
9999547 Apparatuses and methods for negative pressure wound therapy Sean Albert, Ed Armstrong, Ken Beaudoin, Iain Michael Blackburn, Phil Bussone +13 more 2018-06-19 $1,750,000
9974695 Apparatuses and methods for negative pressure wound therapy Sean Albert, Ed Armstrong, Ken Beaudoin, Iain Michael Blackburn, Phil Bussone +13 more 2018-05-22 $2,398,000
9962295 Negative pressure wound closure device Raymond Dunn, Victoria Jody Hammond, Edward Yerbury Hartwell, John Kenneth Hicks, Elizabeth Mary Huddleston +4 more 2018-05-08 $1,464,000
9642750 Apparatuses and methods for negative pressure wound therapy Sean Albert, Ed Armstrong, Ken Beaudoin, Iain Michael Blackburn, Phil Bussone +13 more 2017-05-09 $691,000
9327065 Apparatuses and methods for negative pressure wound therapy Sean Albert, Ed Armstrong, Ken Beaudoin, Iain Michael Blackburn, Phil Bussone +13 more 2016-05-03 $3,721,000
9302032 Fluid communication path Neill Philip Bannister, Edward Yerbury Hartwell, Iain Michael Blackburn, Andy Linton, Mark White 2016-04-05
8801685 Apparatuses and methods for negative pressure wound therapy Ed Armstrong, Iain Michael Blackburn, Robert Emmerson, Steven Gianelis, Joseph Gordon +5 more 2014-08-12 $819,000
8528779 Dispenser with waste collection spool, and method of using Jeffrey L. Hamer, Ken F. Teeters, Ravi Thomas, Andrew Linton, Mark White 2013-09-10 $15,970,000