US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITAT BERN on Oct. 7 for "Urinary pumping device" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,054, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to UNIVERSITAT BERN (Bern, Switzerland).

"Urinary pumping device" was invented by Dominik Obrist (Suhr, Switzerland), Francesco Clavica (Derendingen, Switzerland), Fiona Burkhard (Bern, Switzerland), Marc Schneider (Steffisburg, Switzerland) and Lukas Bereuter (Bern, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An urinary pumping device for generating a fluid flow through a urethra of a patient includes an activation arrangement configured to induce intermittent compression and release of the urethra, and a mounting structure to mount and unmount the activation arrangement to a body of the patient. Th...