US Patent Issued to Dentsply IH on June 17 for "Urinary catheter for controlled drainage" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,913, issued on June 17, was assigned to Dentsply IH AB (Molndal, Sweden).

"Urinary catheter for controlled drainage" was invented by Martin Lovmar (Molndal, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved urinary catheters are described. One example urinary catheter includes a catheter shaft with an internal lumen, extending between a distal discharge opening and a proximal drainage opening, arranged at a proximal tip of the catheter shaft. An overcoat layer encircles a portion of the catheter shaft, forming a closed deformable fluid filled cavity intermediate the overcoat layer and the outer surface of the shaft. The overcoat layer i...