US Patent Issued to CONVATEC on June 3 for "Ostomy appliance" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,324, issued on June 3, was assigned to CONVATEC Ltd. (Flintshire, Great Britain).

"Ostomy appliance" was invented by Clare Holden (Flintshire, Great Britain), Alice Young (Flintshire, Great Britain) and Kevin Evans (Flintshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ostomy appliance comprising an inner wall and an outer wall that define a cavity for containing a stomal output, the ostomy appliance having an upper section, a lower section and a waisted section that is located between the upper section and the lower section. The upper section has a maximum width (A) that is greater than a maximum width (B) of the lower section ...