US Patent Issued to C. R. Bard on Dec. 9 for "Urinary collection system" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,103, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to C. R. Bard Inc. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Urinary collection system" was invented by Varad Chavan (Kolhapur, India) and Jason Jishen Cheng (Avondale Estates, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a urinary collection system including a urine collection bag and a vacuum chamber coupled to the urine collection bag. The vacuum chamber is positioned in a vertical orientation. A top end of the vacuum chamber includes a drainage inlet and a vacuum port, and a bottom end of the vacuum chamber includes a drainage outlet. An isolation chamber is disposed between the vacuum chamber and urin...