US Patent Issued to University of Central Lancashire on Feb. 25 for "Methods and apparatuses for estimating bladder status" (British, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,080, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to University of Central Lancashire (Preston, Great Britain).

"Methods and apparatuses for estimating bladder status" was invented by Darren William Ansell (Lancashire, Great Britain), Caroline Sanders (Prince George, Canada), Peter Leather (Liverpool, Great Britain), Mahdi Amina (Preston, Great Britain) and Kaya Kuru (Preston, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods and apparatuses for estimating the status of a bladder, especially with respect to the likelihood of an imminent voiding of the bladder. The apparatuses carry out computer-implemented meth...