US Patent Issued to Coloplast on Aug. 12 for "Connector adapted to attach an irrigation catheter to tubing of an anal or stomal irrigation system" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,666, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Coloplast A/S (Humlebaek, Denmark).

"Connector adapted to attach an irrigation catheter to tubing of an anal or stomal irrigation system" was invented by Niels Hvid (Vedbaek, Denmark) and Henrik Bay (Lyngby, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector is disclosed that attaches an irrigation catheter to tubing of an anal or stomal irrigation system. The connector has a housing, a pressure control device retained within the housing, and a restriction element. The pressure control device has an inlet channel on a distal side of the pressure control device communicating along an irrigation ...