ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,879, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Tessefi Innovations Inc. (Rocky Mount, N.C.).
"Automated catheter and chest tube devices and related systems" was invented by Mengesha Keelen (Rocky Mount, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automated catheter and automated chest tube systems and devices. In some embodiments, the automated, or smart, catheter and chest tube of the present disclosure includes a housing for containing one or more collection reservoirs for collecting fluid, a flexible tube used to drain the fluid from either the bladder, chest cavity, or other appropriate bodily region, and a measuring device to measure the amoun...