US Patent Issued to PUREWICK on March 25 for "Apparatus and methods for receiving discharged urine" (California, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,173, issued on March 25, was assigned to PUREWICK Corp. (Covington, Ga.).

"Apparatus and methods for receiving discharged urine" was invented by Raymond J. Newton (Bonsall, Calif.), Ashley Marie Johannes (Atlanta) and Jason Iain Glithero (McDonough, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system suitable for collecting and transporting urine away from the body of a person or animal may include an urine collecting assembly having a body, a sealing flange, and a reservoir within the body and partially defined by the sealing flange. The sealing flange can define an opening such that the interior of the body is accessible via the opening. ...