US Patent Issued to C. R. Bard on June 3 for "Collapsible thin-walled valve for drainage control" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,552, issued on June 3, was assigned to C. R. Bard Inc. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Collapsible thin-walled valve for drainage control" was invented by David M. Simiele (Roswell, Ga.), Jason Jishen Cheng (Avondale Estates, Ga.), Varad Chavan (Maharashtra, India) and Rohit Sinha (Lawrenceville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to a drainage control system including, a tubular body with a tubular body lumen extending from a distal end to a proximal end and a collapsible tube disposed within the tubular body lumen, the collapsible tube including a collapsible tube lumen extending from a distal end ...