ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,152, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CONVATEC Ltd. (Flintshire, Great Britain).
"Ostomy pouch" was invented by Bryony Lee (Flintshire, Great Britain), Neal Carty (Chicago) and Monica Hill (Painsville, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ostomy pouch having a cavity for storing stomal output. The cavity is defined by a rear wall and a front wall joined at their peripheries and formed of flexible sheet material. The ostomy pouch further comprises a sheet of woven comfort material covering the outside surface of the front wall. The sheet of comfort material has an outside surface and an opposite inside surface, and the outside sur...