US Patent Issued to UROMED Kurt Drews on Feb. 3 for "Catheter valve for controlling the fluid flow of a medium" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,410, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to UROMED Kurt Drews KG (Oststeinbek, Germany).

"Catheter valve for controlling the fluid flow of a medium" was invented by Werner Schwarz (Ruhpolding, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter valve for controlling the fluid flow of a medium, in particular a self-closing catheter valve, wherein a main body includes: -an inlet and an outlet-, -a flexible tube, -as a cover, a slider which is movable in the longitudinal direction, and -at the inlet of the catheter valve, a stepped barbed part for connecting a supply line; and, in the interior of the main body that comprises two laterally oppos...