ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,962, issued on March 17.
"Urinary waste system" was invented by Helmut Koeckert (Lakewood, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for collecting and removing urinary waste from a user. One such system includes a urinary waste receptacle defined by a concave dome-shaped shell and an opposite concave wall, the shell and wall defining an interior volume. An aperture in the wall defines a urinary waste inlet fluidly connected to the interior volume, the aperture having a deformable dam-like structure at least partially therearound and a cross-sectional area of the urinary waste inlet is smaller than a maximum cross-sectional area ...