ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,269, issued on April 21.

"Urinary catheter urine collection bag with replaceable drain blockage filter" was invented by Shelby Elizabeth Peterson (Mountain Iron, Minn.), Benjamin Daniel Wilson (Goodyear, Ariz.), Brianna Vance (Gilbert, Ariz.), Christina Hassib Aridi (Gilbert, Ariz.), Natalia Evelyn Duran Valenzuela (Phoenix) and Hannah Jane Oman (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A urinary catheter urine collection system with a urinary catheter fluidly coupled to a bag inlet to pass urine from a patient to the bag. A drainage tube fluidly coupled to a bag outlet to pass urine out of the bag. A removable blockage filter...