US Patent Issued to Hollister on April 29 for "Ostomy appliance having conductive ink circuit for leakage detection" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,351, issued on April 29, was assigned to Hollister Inc. (Libertyville, Ill.).

"Ostomy appliance having conductive ink circuit for leakage detection" was invented by Michael P. Nolan (Chicago), Christina Augustyn (Chicago), James Brandon Barker (Antioch, Ill.), Jonas P. Carlsson (Chicago), Ryan S. Park (Northbrook, Ill.), Scott Janis (El Cerrito, Calif.), Stephanie Henze (San Mateo, Calif.), Christopher Michael Wlezien (Evanston, Ill.), Somasunder Vijay Sekaran (San Francisco), Germain Verbrackel (San Francisco) and Robert Lane (Larkspur, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ostomy appliance includes a substrate and at least one Ra...