US Patent Issued to Hollister on April 15 for "Method of detecting leakage in medical devices" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,637, issued on April 15, was assigned to Hollister Inc. (Libertyville, Ill.).

"Method of detecting leakage in medical devices" was invented by Scott E. Liddle (Raleigh, N.C.) and Lauren M. Lattanzi (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting ostomy effluent leakage in an ostomy appliance is provided. The method includes the steps of providing a plurality of sensors; measuring resistance of the ostomy appliance using each of the plurality of sensors; entering resistance measurements in a ring buffer configured to hold resistance measurements; calculating a median resistance value of each of the plurality of sens...