US Patent Issued to Coloplast on Oct. 7 for "Tools and methods for placing an ostomy appliance on a user" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,781, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Coloplast A/S (Humlebaek, Denmark).

"Tools and methods for placing an ostomy appliance on a user" was invented by Jais Ask Hansen (Jaegerspris, Denmark), Niels Hvid (Vedbaek, Denmark), Daniel Gewecke Daugaard-Jensen (Frederiksberg, Denmark), Peter Flintholm Soerensen (Aarhus, Denmark), Dan Boegsted Andersen (Copenhagen, Denmark) and Niels Kristian Makinen Andersen (Glostrup, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating an accessory device to guide the placement of an ostomy appliance on a user having a stoma. The method can include capturing an image or a sequence of images of th...