US Patent Issued to PUREWICK on June 17 for "Fluid collection devices including at least one shape memory material" (Georgia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,364, issued on June 17, was assigned to PUREWICK Corp. (Covington, Ga.).

"Fluid collection devices including at least one shape memory material" was invented by Nick Austermann (Atlanta), Pranav Challa (Atlanta), Young Cho (El Cajon, Calif.), Ashley Marie Johannes (Atlanta), Andrew Meyer (Atlanta) and Eric Rehm (Lawrenceville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples relate to systems, devices, and methods for removing fluid from a fluid collection device using a vacuum source operably coupled thereto. The fluid collection devices include urine collection devices having shape memory material that may be selectively shaped to compl...