ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,370, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to PureWick Corp. (Covington, Ga.).
"Apparatus with compressible casing for receiving discharged urine" was invented by Kathleen Davis (Atlanta) and Katie Grupp (Alpharetta, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device suitable for collecting and transporting urine away from the body of a person including a casing defining an internal volume and an opening. The casing can include a compressible material which is elastically deformable when the device is disposed in a pubic region of a female user. The device can include a porous material disposed within the internal volume and in fluid communicatio...