US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on Oct. 21 for "Catheter valve devices and methods" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,306, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Catheter valve devices and methods" was invented by Tobias S. Kohler (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods are described for urinary catheters and catheter valves. For example, this disclosure relates to urinary catheters having valves that facilitate testing of a user's ability to urinate."

The patent was filed on Dec. 20, 2022, under Application No. 18/084,861.

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