ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,271, issued on May 20, was assigned to REPRIEVE CARDIOVASCULAR INC. (Milford, Mass.).

"Urine collection systems and associated methods and devices" was invented by Eric Conley (York, Maine), Andrew Victor Halpert (Brookline, Mass.), Kenneth John Luppi (Tewksbury, Mass.) and Antony Jonathan Fields (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Urine collection systems and associated methods and devices are disclosed herein. A representative system can include a urine collection device, a flow control assembly configured to direct a urine flow from the patient to the urine collection device, and a urine measurement device including a fi...