US Patent Issued to Sentinel Medical Technologies on Aug. 5 for "Catheter for monitoring intra-abdominal pressure for assessing preeclampsia" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,785, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Sentinel Medical Technologies LLC (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Catheter for monitoring intra-abdominal pressure for assessing preeclampsia" was invented by Timothy McKinney (Boca Raton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for measuring intra-abdominal pressure in a pregnant woman to assess likelihood or occurrence of pre-eclampsia. The method includes providing a catheter having first and second lumens and a balloon, inserting the catheter into a bladder of the patient, injecting gas into the first lumen of the catheter to expand the balloon, obtaining a first pressure reading of the ...