US Patent Issued on Oct. 20 for "Systems and methods for a female external catheter" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,291, issued on Oct. 20.

"Systems and methods for a female external catheter" was invented by Myron Eugene Taylor Jr. (Brookeville, Md.) and Robert L Hester (Derwood, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques may generally be used for external urinary collection using a formable female external catheter system. The system may include an elongated, flexible catheter body comprising catheter tubing and a semi-rigid, malleable internal stent disposed longitudinally within the catheter body. The internal stent may be deformable and may have sufficient column strength to resist radial collapse of the catheter body under neg...