US Patent Issued to Coloplast on Feb. 17 for "Method of treating urinary incontinence in a patient by placing a sling in a single vaginal incision" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,325, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Coloplast A/S (Humlebaek, Denmark).

"Method of treating urinary incontinence in a patient by placing a sling in a single vaginal incision" was invented by Randy Lee Morningstar (Brooklyn Park, Minn.), Michael M. Witzmann (Minneapolis) and Mark A. Moschel (New Hope, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating urinary incontinence in a patient includes providing a sling assembly comprising: a sling, an adjustable anchor, and a fixed anchor; making a vaginal incision in the patient; placing the fixed anchor and the adjustable anchor into obturator tissue of the patient; and adjusting...