US Patent Issued to Coloplast on Oct. 14 for "Urinary catheter assembly including a catheterization aid providing a handle and an intermittent catheter disposed within the handle" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,647, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Coloplast A/S (Humlebaek, Denmark).

"Urinary catheter assembly including a catheterization aid providing a handle and an intermittent catheter disposed within the handle" was invented by Lars Olav Schertiger (Fredensborg, Denmark), Alistair David Morton (Kastrup, Denmark) and Berker Diker (Copenhagen, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A urinary catheter assembly includes a catheterization aid having a handle and a guide channel formed in the handle, and an intermittent catheter retained within the guide channel."

The patent was filed on Feb. 15, 2024, under Application No. 18/442,214.

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